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Under questioning, Holmes made an admission that may haunt the Summa lawyers once the trial begins. Holmes recalled that Hughes told him that he had written a holographic will, a last testament whose unwitnessed authenticity rests on identifying the handwriting of the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Recent Vice Presidents have dutifully promised to bring meaning to the job. None have really succeeded. Even so, the role, with its perks and possibilities, is an attractive one: Hubert Humphrey confided to Mondale that without Viet Nam to haunt the Administration he would have relished the job of L.B.J.'s Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: No. 2 Made His Points | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...unforgettably "dead craters of harsh moon ash on the endless plain where the sea had been," we hear "a disaster of hoofs and animal sighs from behind the fortified walls," we smell "the lunar dust-covered rosebuds under which the lepers had slept." Such descriptions return to haunt us, as they do the patriarch; they are fragments of a real or created past, the whole of which we do not know and he has forgotten...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Memories of a Senile Elephant | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

Back problems continued to haunt Diana Olney. With her number four match tied after two sets she had to default, giving Colby their only singles win of the afternoon...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Racquetwomen Tip Colby, Capture Five of Six Singles | 10/6/1976 | See Source »

...carryings on of this sort that make Al Vellucci the most "colorful" of the politicians who haunt the oaken corridors of Cambridge city hall. On the one hand, there is lovable Al, caring for his tribe and defending the interests of the common man in the realm of city politics. On the other, there is the Al full of bombast, homelife and trivial, lovable sound and fury. The combination must work, because nobody now on the council has been there as long as mayor Al (22 years, as long as this reporter has been alive). I'd love to know...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: Al Vellucci: Pepperoni and homemade wine | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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