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On the other hand, Hughes lived in a bungalow in the desert near Las Vegas where he employed local Mormons to protect him from contamination. Nonetheless, fearing that his home had become infected (and something of a tourist attraction), he began living in a succession of anonymous hotel rooms, moving secretly in the dead of night while strapped to a stretcher.
The windows of his rooms were taped over and its furnishings and fixtures reportedly draped in plastic. (By 1966, Hughes had stopped bathing and ate only cake and candy.) He watched the film Ice Station Zebra (1968), at least 150 times.