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Summa under Lummis has changed its style. Gone is the compulsive secrecy that once enveloped Hughes' vast and tangled affairs. Recalls William Rankin, a longtime Hughes employee who is now No. 2 at Summa: "Everything was secret unless we were told otherwise. We hired a p.r. agency to say, 'No comment.' " Top executives no longer have to punch a code into an elevator in the parking garage before they can enter the firm's unpretentious headquarters two miles from the Las Vegas strip. Company officers now work in fourth-floor offices rather than the windowless basement...
...announcing the export ban on 17 million tons of U.S. grain to the U.S.S.R., the White House estimated that perhaps 3 million tons of that might be bought elsewhere. Now Administration officials admit that Moscow will buy at least 6 million tons from other grain exporters, and Peter Rankin, director of food policy studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, estimates that the Soviets will be able to buy up to 11 million tons. Says Clayton Yeutter, president of Chicago's Mercantile Exchange: "In the end, the Soviets will get all they want...
...have laws either requiring or permitting a "moment of silence" for student meditation. Tennessee and Mississippi have laws requiring "voluntary" prayer, and Massachusetts-type legislation is pending in six states. After the Mississippi Civil Liberties Union decided to challenge its law, a group of parents and children in Rankin County requested an injunction against all prayers until the suit's resolution. Some local school board members promptly denounced them as "agents of Satan...
...Kenny Rankin--The Paradise...
...event to commemorate those people who died struggling trying to win justice and freedom for others," Kenneth L. Rankin '80-3, a member of the executive board of the BSA, 'said yesterday...