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...planned to reach Kansas City early, settling into the sweeping elegance of the Alameda Plaza to wage his eleventh-hour fight to prevent an early Ford victory. His campaign manager, John Sears, would direct operations from a 50-ft. trailer outside the glistening arena, working the convention floor through Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and a batch of assistants. Both camps had their carefully prepared charts on how each delegate might vote-and they were poised to pounce on anyone who deviated from the expected. After nine long months of campaign labors, no one last week could be sure...
Even by the high-rolling standards of Las Vegas, it was a huge gamble. The players sat in a garishly decorated room alongside the Strip, pondering moves involving the highest sum ever played for in Nevada's green-felt gaming world. At stake: the Howard Hughes fortune, estimated at $2.5 billion...
...Hughes' only surviving aunt, Mrs. Frederick Lummis, 85, a Houston widow who is William's mother. Even after taxes, the Lummises would probably collect about $300 million apiece. Understandably, the family is eager to have Howard's last place of U.S. residence declared to be Nevada, since it has no state inheritance tax. Texas and California, which have such taxes, are claiming...
...Washington Monument." ∙ Patriotism may have its limits, but public relations does not. Paul Revere, 38, leader of the rock group Paul Revere and the Raiders, will celebrate the Fourth of July by marrying Sandra Campbell, 29, a former nightclub camera girl and a 1971 aspirant to Miss Nevada honors. The wedding, featuring the pair in early-American nuptial garb, will be held between shows at the Kings Island entertainment center in Ohio, where Paul Revere (his real name) will be performing. The couple met five years ago on July 4, and "that's why we chose the date...
Faced with this, the worst possible traffic and driving in the immediate area, and a boring droner from the University of Nevada at Reno as your sole course instructor, you might feel the need for a stiff drink. Don't worry: you'll be well taken care of in the immediate vicinity, and as you go further out, the variety increases. Some people's favorites are the consciously unpretentious bars--though that doesn't necessarily mean they're cheap. First, there's the aforementioned Cronin's, with large 70 cent light draft on tap and real atmosphere. For example...