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Word: hugheses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to beat Jack Nicklaus on his own golf course is like trying to beat Howard Hughes in a Nevada real estate deal. Yet that was the prospect faced by 143 P.G.A. players in the recent $100,000 Heritage Golf Classic at Hilton Head, S.C. The course was designed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Course That Jack Built | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Las Vegas was a gold mine for the Mafia from 1963 to 1966. In those years, the gangsters, including then Cleveland Mob Boss Frank Milano, "skimmed" some $12 million annually from the gaming rooms at many of the plastic palaces lining the Strip. The money was stolen from the casinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Mob's Labors Lost | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Fire Sale. For Storer, which acquired its Northeast stock from Hughes Tool Co. in 1965, the deal makes sense. True, Northwest will give only one share of its stock, worth about $35, for five Northeast shares, which traded at a total of almost $70 just before the announcement. Individual shareholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Mating Season for Big Birds | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Another Hornblower fumble on the next series gave Brown possession near midfield, and in eight plays, it scored again, with Jim Hughes diving over from one foot away. With time running out. Harvard began to move but Bruin Dave Chenault intercepted a Crimson option pass on the Brown 16 to...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Crimson Gridders Beaten; First Ivy Win for Bruins | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

Nixon was getting flak closer to home as well, from 17 Senators and 47 Representatives who announced support for M-day. A raft of critical resolutions surfaced on Capitol Hill, showing defiance of Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's plea for a moratorium of his own?a 60-day pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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