For the past seven years, elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines have been tangled in a complex legal battle. The conflict dates back to late 1960, when Hughes, in return for $165 million in loans to pay for TWA's first jets, had to surrender his 78.2% ownership of the airline to a voting trust controlled by the lending banks and insurance companies.
When Hughes objected to the way the new trustee-appointed management was running the company, TWA's new president, Charles Tillinghast Jr. (TIME cover, July 22, 1966), engaged in a bit of preemptive warfare. TWA hit Hughes...
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