Hughes defamation ruling upholds $2.8 million award
Billionaire Howard Hughes, absent from court, loses bid to overturn a jury verdict ordering $2.8 million in slander damages to former aide Robert Maheu. Judge Harry Pregerson notes Hughes public remarks harmed Maheu. Maheu owes Hughes $145,974, and Hughes’ whereabouts remain unclear after years of disappearance.
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First graders join Pony Express arrival in Pima
Mrs Eleonor Zoellner's first graders from Pima School will walk to the main post office on Friday to witness the Pony Express arrival. Each student will carry a letter in saddle bags written to themselves as a language arts project mailed to Holbrook for a special post mark. The event serves as a keepsake momento for the pupils.
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Eleanor Zoellner
Pima
Holbrook
FIDE World Championship Cycle and 1974 Matches
FIDE governs world chess championships through zonal and interzonals with a four year path from zonal to world title. It details the 1975 cycle linking Karpov as a Candidate winner to potential matches, alongside background on Fischer Spassky and the 1971–72 cycle.
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Ross Williams Copley
International Chess Federation
FIDE
Alexander Alekhine
Alekhine
Anatoly Karpov
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Scottsdale High Names Lisa Etling Student of the Month
Scottsdale High announces Lisa Etling as the Scottsdale Exchange Club student of the month for her leadership in student government and clubs. She maintains strong interests in science and music, holds a part time job, and is an accomplished pianist amid plans for expanded hearing therapy programs and joint youth initiatives with Vista del Camino.
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Lisa Etling
Scottsdale
Vista del Camino
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Apartment fire in Revere kills nine in family
A blaze swept an upstairs apartment in a wooden frame home in Revere Mass killing five members of the Taglieri family while a 12 year old son and four others on the first floor escaped. The dead were Alfred Taglieri 26 Cathy 27 and children Thomas 4 Marie 1 and the younger brother. Joseph Taglieri survived and was hospitalized. Officials said the fire started near a chimney installed by contractor Alfred Taglieri who had remodeled part of the house and planned to buy it.
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Mass
UPI
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Cathy
Thomas
Marie
Joseph Taglieri
Saugus General Hospital
Taglieri
Dozens of Southern California quakes shake region near Mexico border
More than 1,000 tremors hit Southern California over six days, mostly near the Imperial Valley. A 2.8 quake rattled the San Fernando Valley as seismologists confirm the Brawley fault’s activity. No injuries or major damage reported despite several 4.0+ events and a 4.7 quake.
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Cal Tech
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Cal:Tech
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Westmoreland
Mexico
Clarence Allen
United States
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Blaze Claims Mother and Four Children in Rose City Fire
A mother Delphine Fuller and her four children Annette Carter 14 Edith Babcock 11 Lyla Fuller 6 and Donald Fuller 3 perished in a house fire near Rose City Michigan. Neighbors alerted authorities at 1 20 am and firefighters arrived to find the structure already engulfed. The husband remains hospitalized in Ann Arbor for cancer treatment.
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Rose City
Mich
UPI
Here
Ogemaw County
Sheriff's Department
Delphine Fuller
Annette Carter
Edith Babcock
Lyla Fuller
Donald Fuller
Brinegar Returns to Union Oil After Resigning
Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar will step down February 1 and resume his prior role as senior vice president and executive committee member at Union Oil Co. The board approved the post, effective February 3.
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UPI
Claude Brinegar
Union Oil Co
Brinegar
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