Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected to wind up cozily close to home. "Most people can't afford to go to Vegas," notes one booster, already trying to one-up Nevada. "Anyway, who needs sunshine in a casino...
...most important question is which state Hughes regarded as his legal residence, Texas or Nevada. The answer is crucial to the future of Summa Corp., the holding company that controls most of the Hughes assets. It stands to pay $300 million in Texas taxes unless it can be proved that Hughes did not reside in Texas. Summa lawyers, together with Hughes' legitimate heirs, argue that before leaving the U.S., Hughes lived for several years in Nevada, where there are no estate taxes. They contend that he listed so many addresses outside Nevada that none of them apply. Thus Nevada...
...trial-by-jury of the "Mormon will" is to begin. In that will, Hughes (or someone forging his handwriting) divided his estate among the Mormon Church, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Miami, former wives Jean Peters and Ella Rice, Boy Scouts, orphans and a gas-station attendant in Nevada, to name a few. Ten handwriting experts have attested to its authenticity, but it is being energetically contested by lawyers for Summa, who contend that the handwriting is a poor facsimile of Hughes' scrawl. They are believed to feel that the Mormon will, even though it could reduce Summa...
...major part of the burden of establishing a Harvard style of team play will fall on the ample shoulders of the 6-ft., 6-in. Hooft. Last year's leading hero of the freshman squad, the forward from Winnemucca, Nevada must change his style of play this year to compensate for the Crimson's lack of height...
Hooft, who hails from Winemucca, Nevada, anchors down the lone forward spot with his all-purpose game but will be spelled by Gary Ackerman, whom Sanders terms "a tough forward who's been there before...