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Another 63 propelled him to second in the 1972 Bob Hope Desert Classic and in 1970 he carded a 61 in the Phoenix. Miller has been rather dryly described as "a Mormon of abstemious habits who strides freely along the fairways with an air of dedicated, almost detached, purpose." But on Saturday he once again confirmed his ability to shoot for the jugular, as he humbled Royal Birkdale with a brilliant salvo of shots that earned him four birdies and an eagle on the thirteenth...
...Utah Congressman Allan T. Howe, 48, father of five, was arrested in Salt Lake City after allegedly soliciting sexual services from two policewomen posing as prostitutes. Although under pressure from some Utah Democrats and authorities of the Mormon Church, of which he is a member, Howe announced he would seek reelection...
Large Scrawl. The circumstances surrounding the will's discovery were mysterious. As a public relations executive of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was sorting through the mail on his desk one afternoon, he came upon a tattered yellow envelope. The envelope, bearing a partly illegible Las Vegas postmark, was addressed to Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Mormon church. Inside the first envelope was a smaller one that bore instructions written in a large scrawl. They ordered Kimball to deliver the enclosed will to legal authorities in Clark County, Nev., "after my death...
...executor's fees) to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, his tax-free research foundation. One-eighth was to be divided among Houston's Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada and California. Eight different groups of beneficiaries got one-sixteenth shares (about $150 million each): the Mormon church; William Lummis, a cousin in Houston; and a man named Melvin Dummar, who leases a gas station in Willard, Utah. Hughes' former wives (Ella Rice and Jean Peters) were to divide a one-sixteenth share. Aside from bequests to the Boy Scouts, an orphans' home...
...Mormon church leaders submitted the document to a Utah handwriting expert, Mrs. Leslie King, who had studied Hughes' handwriting in an earlier court case. After a hurried examination, she declared: "There is a good chance that Mr. Hughes did write that will." The Mormons then rushed to Las Vegas, the seat of Clark County, to file the testament. "It could be an actual legal document or a hoax," said Mormon Spokesman Wendell Ashton. "This was a hot potato to land in our office...