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...Hughes' hidden years leaked out earlier (TIME cover, Dec. 13). Now new evidence, taken in the Los Angeles Superior Court in cases to determine Hughes' legal residence, is becoming public-and it only confirms and elaborates the worst suspicions about his decline and death. According to sworn testimony from his personal aides and doctors, Howard Hughes became addicted to the tranquilizer Valium. As a total recluse living in a series of penthouse hideaways, he popped large-dosage 10-mg. blue tablets, which his personal aides faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers) in the daily log that they...
Heimann began the probe the day after he was sworn into office on July 21. A smart and ambitious moderate Democrat, he has firsthand knowledge of the highflying financial world in which Lance made his fortune. An economics graduate of Syracuse University ('50), Heimann started with the Wall Street investment house of Smith, Barney & Co., promising to quit in two years if he could not create new business in the virgin field of advising labor unions on investing pension funds. "Nothing happened for a year and three-quarters," he recalled. "I worked terribly hard, saw everybody, but nothing happened...
...brought into being the Department of Energy, the first new Cabinet agency to be established since the creation of the Department of Transportation in 1966. In another Rose Garden ceremony at week's end, James Schlesinger, whose confirmation hearings were held even before the department formally existed, was sworn in as the first Secretary of Energy...
...said that Yarbrough had supplied him with forged identity papers to help him hide out in Louisiana and Texas for two years. While he was a fugitive, Rothkopf claimed, he and Yarbrough had discussed assassinating other former Yarbrough business partners who were now cooperating with the police. The newly sworn justice also supplied Rothkopf with an "enemies list" in March after declaring "open warfare on those son of a bitches...
...cheerful serenity." Brewster, who was leaving the university after 14 often stormy years as president, then got a surprise honorary degree himself ("You have been the disturber of placid assumptions and the preserver of the peace"). Amid the azaleas and tulips of his campus residence. Brewster was later sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The man who administered the oath of office: Cyrus Vance, his old friend and as Secretary of State, his new boss, who had interrupted his talks at Geneva to fly back at his own expense to watch his son Cyrus Vance Jr. graduate with...