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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important question is which state Hughes regarded as his legal residence, Texas or Nevada. The answer is crucial to the future of Summa Corp., the holding company that controls most of the Hughes assets. It stands to pay $300 million in Texas taxes unless it can be proved that Hughes did not reside in Texas. Summa lawyers, together with Hughes' legitimate heirs, argue that before leaving the U.S., Hughes lived for several years in Nevada, where there are no estate taxes. They contend that he listed so many addresses outside Nevada that none of them apply. Thus Nevada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Hughes' Ghost v. the Wolves | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...among the Mormon Church, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Miami, former wives Jean Peters and Ella Rice, Boy Scouts, orphans and a gas-station attendant in Nevada, to name a few. Ten handwriting experts have attested to its authenticity, but it is being energetically contested by lawyers for Summa, who contend that the handwriting is a poor facsimile of Hughes' scrawl. They are believed to feel that the Mormon will, even though it could reduce Summa's tax liability under federal law, would also dilute Summa's control of the empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Hughes' Ghost v. the Wolves | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...Summa's stalling efforts were blunted last week when a probate judge in Houston ordered the company to produce every document it possessed relating to Hughes-his travels, taxes, living expenses and medical history, among other things. The documents could go far in shedding light on the Hughes mystery. But Summa lawyers will almost certainly appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Hughes' Ghost v. the Wolves | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...time Pulitzer Prize winner who shouldered a full- time teaching schedule on top of his composing for a perpetual flood of commissions, continually amazed his colleagues and students with his energy. Although he began studying music seriously only as a 26-year-old freshman here, he graduated summa cum laude and returned a short year later to join the music faculty and conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Piston 1894-1976 | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

LONGEST THESIS--The opening lines from Henry A. Kissinger's 1950 summa cum laude senior thesis--entitled "The Meaning of History (Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant)"--read as follows: "An Introduction to an undergraduate honor thesis may seem presumptuous, but I believe that its inordinate length and unorthodox method require an explanation...the length is due to the fact that I did not realize the implications of the subject when I started to work on the thesis. As it grew, I made several efforts to cut it down...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Lies My Father Told Me | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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