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...kidney failure in 1976, his purported will surfaced mysteriously in Salt Lake City on a desk at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dubbed the Mormon will, the document bequeathed his fortune to an improbable collection of institutions and individuals, including a Utah gas station attendant, Melvin Dummar, who claimed that he had once given Hughes a ride to Las Vegas...
...true that Fine is a big fan of soul music. Beaming proudly at a poster on his Claverly wall yesterday afternoon. Fine pointed and said, "You see that? That's my Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes poster. I like to get down to that Philly sound...
...following article, by Melvin E. Reeves '73-4 and Harvard W. Stephens '73-4, is a response to an article by Martin L. Kilson Jr., professor of Government, in last week's issue of The Harvard Independent. Kilson wrote that black solidarity among students at Harvard has become "an ethnic thumb-sucking disaster...
...they reach an accord, it will have to be ratified by the Senate before taking effect. But fears persist on Capitol Hill that the Soviets have underhandedly violated the old SALT agreement and cannot be trusted to keep a new one. Indeed, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird accused Moscow of exactly that in a recent article in the Reader's Digest titled, Arms Control: The Russians Are Cheating...
...with the folks back home, who still revere him for coming to the rescue of Wilkes-Barre after it was virtually destroyed by the raging Susquehanna River during Hurricane Agnes in 1972. After hearing about the disaster at midnight in Washington, he flew home aboard then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's personal helicopter, and declared: "This is going to be one Flood against another." He soon learned that the most critical need was for helicopters to rescue marooned victims. He phoned a top official at the Pentagon and bellowed: "I want those helicopters, and I want them this...