Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevada: Mossback Republican George W. Malone, 68, lost his third-term race to middle-of-the-road Democrat Howard W. Cannon, 46, Las Vegas city attorney for ten years, less on political grounds than because Las Vegans, who recently surpassed Reno in population, were peeved because all three Nevadans in Congress were from Reno...
...Nevada: Swept under in the Democratic wave: Republican Governor Charles H. Russell, beaten by Democrat Grant Sawyer...
Since the test stoppage came after an eleventh-hour series of small-weapons shots at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Proving Grounds (see below), it brought no immediate shutdown of nuclear-weapons development. But the commitment, said the State Department and the Foreign Office, would be kept for one year, provided that the Russians 1) set off no nuclear explosions that could be detected by the free world's monitoring system, and 2) continued to negotiate toward a workable inspection system. It would be extended if the three nations, after setting up an inspection system, could make...
...Commission Chairman John McCone admitted at his first press conference what he had long argued in private (TIME. Sept. 1)-that stopping U.S. tests "would delay and probably prevent'' development of low-radioactivity ("clean") weapons essential for U.S. defense, e.g., antimissile missiles. In its last test at Nevada Proving Grounds, before the stoppage, the AEC successfully set off a Hiroshima-sized underground shot ( 20 kilotons) that spouted a geyser of dirt but proved beyond doubt that the Russians could make important underground tests without leaving a scintilla of telltale fallout-thus leaving detection to highly fallible, faraway seismographs...
Over a three-day period last week. Los Angeles' health officer, Dr. George Uhl. wondered and worried as his Geiger counters showed a steady rise in the atmosphere's radioactivity level. At midweek a brisk high-altitude wind, blowing from Nevada, brought radioactivity from a test shot above normal safety levels, sent Health Officer Uhl round to see Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson phoned the AEC in Washington, finally got through to AECommissioner Willard Libby, was assured that 1) the fallout level was not dangerous at all; 2) the Nevada test series was almost complete...