Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ironic that Billionaire Howard Hughes [April 19] suffered from malnutrition...
...would like to see Howard Hughes' estate used to establish an institute for the study of megalomania. Perhaps we could learn what makes men so obsessed with money and power-and with enough research, we could learn how to help them...
TIME reported Howard Hughes' holdings as being worth $2.3 billion. If you converted this to cash and then invested it in municipal bonds yielding 7½% tax-free interest per year and started spending $100 per day to lease a home, $100 per day for servants, $200 per day for living expenses, gave $1,000 per day to charities, and bought and gave away six $70,000 homes every day and six $10,000 automobiles every day, and did all of this 365 days every year, you would be broke at the end of 55 years and four months...
Throughout last Sunday's demonstration for affirmative action, Howard S. Jones '78 stood impassively, never joining the rest of the crowd sprawled on the grass. He remained alone, holding up a sign that read, "Affirmative action is unjust" on one side, and "Hire on merit" on the other...
...time attempting to monitor, infiltrate, and disrupt radical groups in the Philadelphia area. Focusing particular attention on student anti-war activity and on the Black Panthers, the FBI employed such tactics as unauthorized wiretaps, mail openings, and disseminating fraudulent anonymous letters to discredit radical groups, much like Howard Hunt's Kennedy-Diem telegram...