Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncertainty of the situation raises serious questions about the fate of Hughes' empire. In Nevada, his aviation companies and seven hotels and casinos-including the Sands, the Desert Inn and the Castaways-are the second largest employer (more than 6,000 people) after the Federal Government. His aviation and defense companies even now affect the national interest; for example, Hughes Aircraft, which is the U.S.'s ninth biggest defense contractor, produces the Phoenix air-to-air missile, the Hellfire air-to-surface missile and radar...
...secret life was surrounded by speculation, much of it wildly spurious. The only eyewitness account came in 1971, when Howard Eckersley, one of Hughes' principal nurse-aides, was compelled to testify in a Nevada suit. According to Eckersley, Hughes had locked himself into a self-made prison. Whether atop the Desert Inn in Las Vegas (where he lived from 1966 to 1970) or the Inn on the Park in London (1972-73) or the Princess in Acapulco (since February), Hughes' pattern of existence was much the same. He was completely sheltered from outsiders by five nurse-aides, four...
Hughes failed to build in Nevada the new light industrial plants that he had promised, or to develop the strategically located plots of land that he bought up in Las Vegas...
...wrestlers, however, have Brazil's claim to normalcy. Clark Freeman, known as "The Nevada Skuzz-bomb" is a young man breaking into the West Coast conference--if man is the proper word. A victim of the aftereffects of and atomic blast at Nevada, New Mexico, Freeman's metabolism has been radically changed. He appears to the unaided eye to be composed of loose shale and flies, and is surrounded by a constant hissing noise. He is having trouble rising on the list of contenders because many of the contenders who have higher ranking than him are afraid...
...moment, several primaries in May look promising for Reagan-if he stays in the race that long. Among them: Texas (May 1), where he is expected to win at least half the 100 delegates at stake, Louisiana (May 1), West Virginia (May 11) and Kentucky, Tennessee, Nevada, Idaho and Oregon (all May 25). He hopes a chain of strong showings in these states will help him win all of California's 167 delegates on June...