Word: innnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the envelope, Kimball found a three-page handwritten will on lined legal paper identical to the type Hughes regularly used for memos to his staff. It was dated March 19, 1968, a time when Hughes was living atop the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. There were no witnesses' signatures. The will assigned one quarter of Hughes' assets (about $600 million before taxes and executor's fees) to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, his tax-free research foundation. One-eighth was to be divided among Houston's Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada...
...abnormal life-style led to a deterioration of his health, which already had been weakened by earlier accidents and overwork. After the first 18 months of seclusion in the Desert Inn, Hughes had wasted to less than 100 Ibs. He developed chronic anemia in 1968; one of the Western world's two or three richest men suffered from malnutrition...
...Vegas, Hughes found the ideal money machine from which he drew funds for political contributions. It was the Silver Slipper casino, a gaudy gambling house located opposite Hughes' Desert Inn hideaway, which he leased for $4.5 million. From the Silver Slipper till, Hughes in 1970 withdrew at least $1 million for his personal projects. The money was in small-denomination, old bills, which could not be traced by tax authorities. Thus he could contribute to his favored candidates more than the $3,000 tax-free limit that prevailed until 1972. As the Watergate investigations later disclosed, Hughes...
...games; croupiers stopped the roulette wheels; and the casinos fell silent as players restively eyed their watches and women stared vacantly into their paper cups full of quarters in front of the slots. Sentiment not being a major commodity in Vegas, one man in the Desert Inn muttered when it was over, "Okay, he had his minute. Let's deal...
...palace guard against Maheu, Hughes abruptly decamped from Las Vegas and moved to the Bahamas, leaving behind some of his private files. Soon after, while his servants in Nevada were in a state of confusion over his sudden departure, someone entered Hughes' 9th-floor penthouse in the Desert Inn and removed sheaves of his personal memos. Most of them ended up in the hands of Hank Greenspun, editor and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. He published some of them and showed others to a few journalists writing about Hughes. Most of the memos remain secreted by Greenspun...