Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moreover, Udall made a deal with Church not to campaign in Nebraska to keep the anti-Carter vote from splitting. Even so, Church was flabbergasted by the skinny 39-38% win. In his victory speech in Omaha, he effusively thanked the people of Nevada, until Wife Bethine urgently whispered, "Nebraska." Carter played down the importance of the loss ("I can't win 'em all") and stepped up his campaign for this week's more important primaries: against California Governor Jerry Brown, who was generating much hopping-and-jumping excitement in Maryland (53 delegates), and against Udall...
...Maryland, Brown, 38, stirred considerable enthusiasm among young people and even many party regulars with calls "for a new generation of leadership." He hopes that by doing well in Maryland's beauty contest-he has no delegates running on his behalf-he can ensure victory in Nevada the following week and a triumphant sweep in California on June 8. Because Brown seems to be cutting into Carter's lead in Maryland, the Georgian scheduled an extra day of campaigning in the state...
...signatures. The will assigned one quarter of Hughes' assets (about $600 million before taxes and executor's fees) to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, his tax-free research foundation. One-eighth was to be divided among Houston's Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada and California. Eight different groups of beneficiaries got one-sixteenth shares (about $150 million each): the Mormon church; William Lummis, a cousin in Houston; and a man named Melvin Dummar, who leases a gas station in Willard, Utah. Hughes' former wives (Ella Rice and Jean Peters) were to divide...
...least for now, however, the Lummises and Gano have the power to vote Hughes' shares and thus keep the empire running. By maintaining a continuity of management in Summa, they will head off possible investigations by Nevada and federal regulatory agencies into the company's Nevada TV station and casinos and Hughes Airwest. Otherwise, the regulatory agencies may well have felt obliged to conduct immediate inquiries about the new chiefs...
Summa is the biggest catchall; besides its airline and TV interests, it presides over the hotels and casinos in Nevada and the Bahamas, a helicopter manufacturer, 1,200 largely dormant silver and gold mines and huge tracts of undeveloped land in Nevada and California. If Hughes' heirs are forced to raise money to pay the federal inheritance tax, parts of Summa may have to be sold...