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...Holliday walks in out of the prairie dust. Kate Elder, now off the line and making a home, looks up from her work. "Hiya, bones," she says. Hello, bitch," he smiles...
...Hers is far from a great natural voice, but it has the deceptive thin strength of a whip antenna. Its basic hue is a Canarsie twang that suggests Judy Holliday negotiating The Party's Over. But hue is one thing and cry another, as proved by Carole's pile-driving thrust in a number called Smackwater Jack, or her tender, searching way with the line, "Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever gonna make it home again...
...side were three longtime and trusted lieutenants from the Hughes empire. They were Raymond Holliday, executive vice president of the Hughes Tool Co. of Houston, the castle keep of the boss's corporate kingdom; Frank W. Gay, senior vice president of that company and a onetime member of the Mormon corps around Hughes; and Chester C. Davis, Hughes' longtime lawyer. On the other side was Robert Maheu (pronounced May-hew), 53, a bulky, pink-cheeked man who, after only Hughes himself, had become the second most powerful figure in Nevada. Maheu, an ex-FBI agent, had worked...
Early this year, Maheu's relations with Hughes started to cool. The handwritten memos from Hughes to Maheu became less frequent. Not until Hughes was on Paradise Island, though, did the Hughes Tool Co. ("Toolco") executives from Houston−Holliday and Gay plus Lawyer Davis, who frequently act for Hughes on business unrelated to the tool company−make their move against Maheu...
...charges, but told him that they had a Hughes proxy and demanded Maheu's resignation within four hours. Said Maheu's aide: "Give us a bill of particulars. Show us your authority. How do we know you are speaking for Hughes?" To that, Toolco's Holliday replied: "We are going to fire 155 people−all of the Maheu crowd, all of the Hooper crowd, and others...