Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never the twain should meet. But last week Oregon's eyebrowed, highbrowed, liberal Democrat Wayne Morse rose in the Senate to blast the $3.6 billion foreign-aid authorization bill and found himself shoulder to shoulder not only with those strapping Neanderthal Republicans, Indiana's Bill Jenner and Nevada's Molly Malone, but with Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge too. And when the bill came to a vote after three days of debate, they stood together as part of a notable rear-view rear guard of 25 (see box), roundly beaten by a bipartisan majority...
...victory was the first and easiest of the four Senate hurdles that the Administration's program faces. Next week the committee's recommendation will go to the Senate floor, where such diehard foreign-aid enemies as Indiana's Jenner and Nevada's Malone lie in wait. Moreover, the Senate Appropriations Committee has yet to count out the actual money, and after that an economy-minded Senate will have to vote the funds...
...great American desert," said J.S. Fox, "is not in Arizona, New Mexico, or Nevada. It lies under the hat of the average man." We optimistically anticipate a time, not too far off, when average will not be synonymous with arid, when character will loudly announce itself as itself, and not as someone else; when the mass will be so throughly revolted with the tasteless mess around it that it will act on its revulsion...
...mothers, wives and girl friends orbiting around the U.S. Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. got the word one day last week that it was testing time for another big one. All week explosions had been going off all over the world-the U.S. A-bomb tests in Nevada, the British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific-and Cape Canaveral was about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile? Or one of the little ones? Near Cocoa, Cocoa Beach...
Divorced. By Aly Khan, 46, playboy son of the Aga Khan: Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 38; in a Swiss court action paralleling her 1953 Nevada divorce from him (which France never recognized); after four years of marriage, two years of on-again, off-again separation, one child. In the meantime (1953-55) Rita married and divorced her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes...