Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic preserve, a group of 30 militant conservatives of both parties met in September to celebrate a crucial victory for which they claimed substantial credit. Paul Weyrich, director of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, awarded gleaming brass plaques to Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Richard Viguerie, the movement's genius of the direct-mail campaign. Their combined efforts, exulted Weyrich, had defeated Jimmy Carter's bills for election-day registration and the public financing of senatorial elections, which would have bolstered the Democratic vote. The plaques were inscribed with the tribute...
During this period, Hughes was the largest private employer in Nevada and provided the cover for the CIA'S Glomar Explorer operation. The executives of Summa Corp.-which was solely owned by Hughes and still oversees his vast real estate, gambling and hotel interests and airline-pretended that the old man was alert and bossing the company from behind the scenes. Actually, he was leading a totally disoriented life. Hughes' daily log, which is expected to be introduced as evidence in pending court actions, recounts that he spent most of his waking hours watching thriller movies, going...
...Summa executives in running casinos and hotels. The estate's once vast assets dwindled so fast that the company might be hard pressed to meet federal inheritance tax payments; the first installment, estimated at $25 million, will presumably be due in January 1978. Three of its seven Nevada establishments were-and still are-losing big money.* Worse still, Summa was ordered to pay $71 million as a settlement to shareholders shortchanged by Hughes when he took over Air West...
Meanwhile, Lummis, in an effort to stop the losses at Summa's casinos in Nevada, has hired Phil Hannifin, former chairman of the Nevada gaming-control board, to run the gambling operations. He will report directly to Lummis, strengthening Lummis' control over day-to-day operations...
...scheduled to open in Las Vegas to decide on the validity of the Mormon will. If the will is declared to be a legal and binding document, Hughes' estate will be divided according to a complex formula among the medical institute, Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada and California, and a number of organizations and individuals, including Dummar...