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Dates: during 1960-1969
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By his own account, Frank Sinatra has "admired and respected Howard Hughes for many years." But last week his feelings became less felicitous. While Recluse Hughes remained in his suite in Las Vegas' Desert Inn, which he bought last March, Frank was doing his best to tear down another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tycoons: Action in Las Vegas | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

All this made headlines-and ob scured the fact that Howard Hughes, 61, has quietly been making news of his own. Picking up properties around Las Vegas, he has, in addition to the Sands and Desert Inn, bought Alamo Airways and the Krupp ranch in Red Rock Canyon. Hughes already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tycoons: Action in Las Vegas | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Why the intensive interest in Las Vegas? Primarily, it is because Nevada has no income tax-a natural draw to Hughes, whose net worth is over a billion. As to his plans, a clue came when Hughes Aide Robert Maheu carried a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tycoons: Action in Las Vegas | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

While state officials hoped that the Hughes statement meant that he was about to build a rumored industrial center at Vegas, Federal Aviation Agency officials were quick to warn that to move McCarran away from the city would be a mistake. Then came an other surprise-a second statement from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tycoons: Action in Las Vegas | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Out of all this came only one predictable thing about unpredictable Howard Hughes: if he has his way, Las Vegas property values will skyrocket.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tycoons: Action in Las Vegas | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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