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Where Van Buren's vice president had so little to do he left Washington for a summer to run an inn, Lyndon B. Johnson headed the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities and the Aeronautics and Space Council under Kennedy. Harry Truman did not even know about the existence of an atomic bomb when he became president, but Nixon was allowed to preside over the National Security Council when President Eisenhower was absent...
...most familiar faces at the debate, Henry A. Kissinger '50, offered his opinion as he ran off to a Reagan party at Cleveland's Stouffer's Inn. "I think Reagan won," Kissinger said, as he walked quickly to escape reporters, "but, of course, I started that...
Five days a week, Arthur leaves his home in Boston at about 4 p.m. He heads his Z28 down Storrow Drive into Cambridge and heads for the Ramada Inn on Soldiers Field Road where the day-man leaves the cab Arthur will drive all night. Changing cars, Arthur reports into the Ambassador cab dispatcher and starts to cruise. He'll check out the Square first and, if there isn't a long line of cabs idling there already, he'll wait for his first fare. But like a nocturnal scavenger, Arthur doesn't like to wait, and when he finds...
...properties in three broad groups-hotels and casinos, aircraft construction and real estate. Lummis hired Phil Hannifin, former chairman of the Nevada gaming-control board, to run the company's hotels and casinos. Hannifin's first project: to finish a $55 million overhaul of the dilapidated Desert Inn, where Hughes had lived as a recluse for four years. Jack Real, a former Lockheed executive, was put in charge of Hughes Helicopters. The company, which lost money in the early '70s, is now in the black, and Real expects it to be twice as large as Summa...
Lummis, who favors Brooks Bros, suits and Dunhill Montecruz cigars, lives in a three-bedroom condo in the fashionable Spanish Oaks section of Las Vegas. He drives his own 1975 Chrysler New Yorker. He often lunches alone, reading a newspaper at the Desert Inn and Country Club or in the coffee shop of the Sands Hotel, which Summa owns. His $225,000-a-year income derives from his position as court-approved administrator of the Hughes estate. Lummis has no plans to expand Summa into new fields, seeing his job as one of pulling the company together. Said he last...