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The remainder of Hunt's life was filled with notable eccentricities, rather than capital or political adventures. Facts Forum fell into public disrepute with the waning of McCarthyism. Day-to-day operations of the Hunt business were increasingly dominated by his sons. Hunt turned his own attentions to the production of idiosyncratic, Utopian novels. He altered a few old habits, giving up gambling and tempering his philandering. He became a partisan of health foods and launched his own company to produce them, an indulgence that cost him millions. He attacked John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, sponsoring the publication of pamphlets arguing that the election of a Catholic would be disastrous. His status as one of Kennedy's most vocal critics immersed him and his family in the allegations and suspicions that followed Kennedy's assassination. Hunt died in 1974, but in death he turned out to be as impressive a...
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