Word: reno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death, Hughes' financial empire was nearly as wasted as his body. His holdings ranged from a major aircraft company and a helicopter manufacturer to casinos in Las Vegas, Reno and the Bahamas, ranches in Nevada, a magazine (Football Today), a television station (Las Vegas' KLAS-TV), mines in Nevada and vast amounts of undeveloped land. Most of the interests were grouped together in the Las Vegas-based Summa Corp., which, Lummis concluded, was run by a group of Hughes lieutenants of dubious ability and honesty. These included Chester C. Davis, Summa's general counsel; Frank William...
...down his demands that the aircraft-instrumentation firm build jets. In 1967, when sales initially failed to take off, he sold Lear Jet Industries Inc. to the Gates Rubber Co. Two years before he died of leukemia in 1978 at age 75, Lear started a new firm, LearAvia, in Reno, to manufacture a turboprop corporate jet that he had designed. On his deathbed, Lear asked his wife Moya, now 65, and Company President Samuel Auld, 55, to use the proceeds from his estimated $100 million estate to complete work on the Lear...
...that was only a prelude to the most inflammatory case of all, the fatal beating of Arthur Lee McDuffie, 33, an insurance company official who was overwhelmed by Dade County police on Dec. 17 after trying to elude their pursuit of his speeding motorcycle. Reno seemed to have a clear-cut case, and highlights of the testimony were televised in regular news programs throughout the state. To the shock of whites and blacks alike, the all-white six-man jury found the officers innocent of all charges...
...neck outside a warehouse. The officer, who was moonlighting as a security guard for the warehouse, contended that Heath had been trying to burglarize the building. Heath's sister, Theresa, 19, said her brother had merely gone to the side of the building to urinate. Again, Reno's office presented evidence to a grand jury but failed to get an indictment...
...accused of attempting to use some $9,000 in school funds to buy goldplated plumbing fixtures for a vacation house he was building. A popular educator widely admired by both blacks and Miami's top white officials, Jones had tried to cover up the attempted misuse of funds. Reno quickly called a rare Saturday session of a grand jury to get him indicted; the school board called an equally unusual Sunday session to suspend him from his job. Jones was quickly convicted of theft and is awaiting sentence. Although his guilt was demonstrated, many Miami blacks saw the swift...