Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handle Hughes affairs in the four geographical areas where his assets are concentrated. But three weeks after his death, a so-called Mormon will mysteriously turned up at a church office building in Salt Lake City, making bequests to the Mormons, various worthy institutions and a gas-station attendant, Melvin Dummar. It also named Hughes' estranged aide Noah Dietrich as executor. Trial on the authenticity of the will is scheduled to begin Aug. 15 in Las Vegas, and Dietrich has retained lawyers in Los Angeles and Houston to handle the case...
...their construction expensive. Admits Lawrence Livermore Physicist John Emmett: "No one is saying it will be cheap." Still, given the seriousness of the energy crisis, that is no reason to sidetrack fusion research in favor of programs promising quicker payoffs. "Shortrange solutions last a short time," warns Princeton Physicist Melvin Gottlieb. "Longterm solutions take decades to achieve...
...first-night curtain went up but also to gather together on its board of directors city hall politicians and Beacon Hill nabobs, to say nothing of Helen Hayes and Mrs. Curt Gowdy. Any group that can accomplish either of these feats ought to be able to survive Strindberg. Melvin Maddocks...
...hockey team called the Barons stopped paying its players. Melvin Swig, the president of the Barons, pleaded the club's poverty, which was an honest plea as Mr. Swig stated it. The Barons were not drawing in their home arena near Cleveland. Mr. Swig, however, resides in San Francisco. There his family prospers in real estate and owns the glorious and expensive Fairmont Hotel...
...dutifulness and near total self-abnegation? It has one in the woman now on the throne, and Lacey may be correct when, in a last desperate attempt to dramatize his subject, he looks ahead another 25 years and prophesies, "Elizabeth II is made to be an inspiring old Queen." Melvin Maddocks...