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...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 was Hughes's first utterance for publication in seven years. "I have," said Hughes, "heard of plans to enlarge Las Vegas' McCarran Field." Instead, Hughes suggested, it might be a good idea to build a new airport far ther from town. Then Las Vegas might "just barely turn out" to be the southwestern center for the U.S.'s supersonic transport planes of the 1970s...
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 Hughes, in which he predicted that Las Vegas could eventually grow to the size of Houston. If this happens, said Hughes, "the present location of McCarran Field would be approximately comparable to having the airport for Los Angeles located on Wilshire Boulevard at the Miracle Mile...
...most coherent approach to a final solution. Evidence of the strength of its appeal, he said, is clearly shown in the growing number of respected figures outside the Communist world who give it serious consideration in their books on society. "To call them all criminals, as does the McCarran Act," he asserted is an insanity that destroyed Germany...
Died. Mary L. McCarran, 59, daughter of the late U.S. Senator Pat Mc Carran, who spent 32 years as Sister Mary Mercy, a Holy Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life-winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to come to Washington's Catholic University for a Ph.D. and helping her stretch her poverty vows by sending his limousine around to pick her up at the Library of Congress-until his death in 1954, after which she left the order to care for her mother and ailing sister...
Mark DeWolfe Rowe '28, professor of Law, Howard Zinn, and Lewis M. Johnson will speak on "The McCarran Act and the DuBols Clubs" tonight at 8 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...