Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Staffers are weighing the risks of personal appearances in other primary states where Brown is on the ballot-Maryland, Kentucky, Nevada, New Jersey-while building a skeletal national organization from such bones as Cesar Chavez's far-flung boycott network and activist church groups. Brown is considering a nationwide tour, the better to disseminate his "lower our expectations" dicta, woo uncommitted delegates and influence the polls during the pregnant preconvention lull...
Last week the Summa trio sought an accommodation with Hughes' relatives, who in the absence of a will stand to inherit the entire estate (after taxes, it could run $1 billion or more). With the backing of the Summa officers, three of Hughes' closest relatives and a Nevada bank were appointed temporary administrators of his estate, estimated to total $2.3 billion. A Texas court named his aunt, Mrs. Frederick Lummis, and her son William Lummis, a Houston attorney; a California court picked Richard Gano, another cousin of Hughes. A potential challenge to this arrangement was being...
...controls about 1,200 mines in Nevada and runs the Husite operation that owns about 30,000 acres of undeveloped desert near Las Vegas. Hughes bought most of the land during the Korean War as a possible site for relocation of defense plants. Total investment in the Nevada mining operations has been about $18 million, and return is described as inadequate. There is also an architectural engineering firm called Archisysterns...
...Thanksgiving Eve 1970, in the midst of the power struggle that pitted his Mormon palace guard against Maheu, Hughes abruptly decamped from Las Vegas and moved to the Bahamas, leaving behind some of his private files. Soon after, while his servants in Nevada were in a state of confusion over his sudden departure, someone entered Hughes' 9th-floor penthouse in the Desert Inn and removed sheaves of his personal memos. Most of them ended up in the hands of Hank Greenspun, editor and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. He published some of them and showed others...
...number of the memos, Hughes mentions Vice President Hubert Humphrey, whom he refers to as "Humphries," "the V.P." or "H.H.H." Hughes seemed to think that he could enlist Humphrey's aid in his own crusade to halt a huge nuclear test explosion that was planned in Nevada in 1968 by the Atomic Energy Commission (see cut above left). He had some environmental worries, but his real fear was that the blast would scare off tourists. His efforts failed; the test went off on schedule. Excerpts from Hughes' memos to Maheu from...