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...According to Robert Maheu, an ex-FBI agent and former manager of Hughes' operations in Nevada, the billionaire had tried for years to arrange a connection with the CIA. Explained Maheu: "He wanted it so that Uncle Sam could never take after him. If he got in a jam with the Internal Revenue Service or the Securities and Exchange Commission, they couldn't afford to touch him because of what he was doing with the CIA." But it was the agency, in fact, that made the initial approach to Hughes about Project Jennifer...
...unexplained reasons, the Scotts, the Harrises and Patty pulled out of their sanctuary in late fall and began driving west. At one point, the van was stopped by a highway patrolman. Scott, who was driving, bluffed his way out of the jam by telling the cop that he and the others were driving home from a football game in Pennsylvania...
...Crimson had managed, to the surprise of most in the jam-packed IAB, to make a game of it in the first half. Led by the crashing rebounds of Bill Carey. Harvard actually led (granted, by small margins) throughout most of the half, but a four-point Quaker outburst in the final two minutes broke a 34-34 tie and provided an all too accurate preview of things to come...
Over the year-end holidays, the occupancy rate of more than 27,000 rooms in hotels and motels around Florida's Disney World reached 93%-and the superamusement center was so jam-packed it had to close its gates to visitors. In California, Disneyland was also doing record business. As of this week Broadway theater ticket sales are running $6 million ahead of last year's level. Sales of costly Steinway pianos have hit a historic high C. At Stanley Korshak Inc., one of Chicago's most expensive dress shops, Vice President Stanley Korshak Jr. reports that...
...arrested burglars. The defense could never explain why the money was dropped in telephone booths, left in hotel lobbies and at airports so that donor and recipient never met face-to-face. Assistant Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste termed the cash "429,500 jars of jam" that the defendants could never remove from their fingers...