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Howard Hughes: Living
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How much does Howard Hughes spend a year funding all these projects? “It's about a million dollars per investigator per year. About $450 million a year,” says Cech. “Who would have thought that the Howard Hughes fortune would end up supporting biomedical research?”
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Over telephone to a group of seven journalists, Howard Hughes denies any involvement in this so-called "autobiography." He claims to have never left the Bahamas during the time Irving supposedly interviewed him.
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Clifford devised a scheme in which, he would convince his publisher, McGraw-Hill, that Howard Hughes commissioned him to write his biography. Clifford would tell his publisher that the book would be based on interviews conducted with Howard. However, there would be a couple of particulars that he would keep secret from his publisher.
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During this return to independent production, Hughes reinvented his image. Although he kept his demanding disposition and his disrespect for the studio system, he shed the tuxedo-clad bachelor style of his youth in favor of the rumpled suits and vagabond look that would become his trademark. At the same time, his famous eccentricities gradually became more pronounced, especially after his 1946 near-fatal test flight in which Hughes crash-landed his experimental XF-11 in Beverly Hills, next door to the home of Joseph Schenck.
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Hughes gives its investigators freedoms most scientists can only dream of. For instance, they're free of the crushing paperwork – a 30-page form, single-spaced - required to get money from the National Institutes of Health.
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In 1972, Hughes was approached by the CIA to help secretly recover a Soviet nuclear submarine which had sunk near Hawaii four years before. He agreed. Thus the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a special-purpose salvage vessel, was born. Hughes's involvement provided the CIA with a plausible cover story, having to do with civilian marine research at extreme depths. In 1974 the Glomar Explorer successfully raised the Soviet boat, which yielded two nuclear-tipped torpedoes and some cryptographic machines.
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