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...quietly with a woman friend in an East Bay apartment. Nowadays, he spends less time in bars-and less time in fights. Martin has had his share of them. Outside a bar with one of his own players (Twins' Pitcher Dave Boswell, 1969), in a bar with a Reno sportswriter (1978), in a Bloomington, Minn., bar with a marshmallow salesman (1979), anywhere...
...proposal, he will change plans, find a job this spring "and try to save enough to help pay for the rest of my education." But, he notes, with his limited qualifications work is hard to find in the Detroit area. Greg Madonna, at the University of Nevada at Reno, has a similar problem. His father, an Air Force colonel, makes $31,000 a year and has four children, three of whom will be in college this coming fall. Says Madonna: "My parents pay for my room, which is $381 a semester, not including food. That's about all they...
Nearly every weekend, Phillip Sanders drove a busload of overnight gamblers some 200 miles from Oakland, Calif, to Reno, and back again. Sanders was arrested at the finish of his 37th trip and charged with grand theft and possession of stolen property; he had been driving buses that did not happen to belong to him. As a police official put it with considerable understatement, "He had a very low overhead...
...have it happen in such a sanctuary-it's like shooting somebody in church," said Reno Taini, a wilderness instructor who discovered the teenagers. During the past 15 months, three other women have been killed on hiking trails in the Point Reyes area. The seven killings had a ritualistic pattern. All but one took place on a weekend or holiday, all the victims except one were women, and most had apparently been forced into a submissive position before being shot with a high-powered weapon. Police believe the killings to be the work of one man. Observes Criminal Psychologist...
...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...