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Straight Alcohol. In fact, hazing that inflicts physical or mental abuse is banned by most universities and colleges and several states. But it still goes on to some degree. There have been other deaths. Last year at the University of Nevada at Reno John Davies died after being forced to drink straight alcohol, whisky, vodka and gin, for more than 24 hours by a fraternity called the Sundowners. In New Jersey in 1974 William Flowers, a pledge to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Monmouth College, suffocated in a "grave" he had been forced to dig for himself...
...complex has the case become that it is expected to take decades to settle. One enterprising attorney, Taylor Moore of Houston, is issuing a twelve-page newsletter to enable other lawyers to keep abreast of developments. Price: $200 a month. So many alleged wills have turned up that a Nevada promoter bound them together in a soft-cover book that sells...
...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...
...trial-by-jury of the "Mormon will" is to begin. In that will, Hughes (or someone forging his handwriting) divided his estate 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...
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