Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After graduation, Bentinck-Smith enrolled in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia. One year later he went west, where he almost decided to buy a small paper in Nevada. He gravitated back to Boston, however, married, and began raising his four-child family. Up to 1940, Bentinck-Smith did rewrite for the Boston Globe, later alternating with leg work and the City Hall beat. The experience was brief but intoxicating. "I don't think I'll ever get over the feeling of being a newspaper man," he reflects. But when he heard about an opening with the Bulletin, Bentinck...
Stephen Mitchell decided that he has troubles enough as chairman of the Democratic National Committee without taking on the special problems of two California Democrats running for Congress: 1) Robert L. Condon, the Congressman who was barred-as a "security risk"-from witnessing atom-bomb tests in Nevada last year; and 2) James Roosevelt, whose wife-now seeking separation-has accused him of adultery with a dozen women...
...When the detonator explodes in such a rig, the tritium reacts, turning into helium and raising the temperature of the explosion. Such "fusion-boosted" detonators are much discussed among hydrogen-bomb connoisseurs. The long series of "nuclear devices" that the Atomic Energy Commission tested in the Pacific and Nevada may have included many experiments with fusion boosting...
Long a nationally controversial figure on the academic freedom issue, Mather has tangled verbally during the last few years with Senators McCarthy of Wisconsin, Jenner of Indiana, and McCarran of Nevada. He testified last February before the Massachusetts Commission investigating Communism in education...
...Democrats in the Senate want to cancel that prospective G.O.P. gain by granting statehood to Alaska (pop. 182,000), which would be expected to elect Democrats. Some Southern Democrats don't want Hawaii admitted at all, because of Hawaiian disregard for the color line. Last week three Republicans (Nevada's Malone, North Dakota's Langer and Maryland's Butler) joined Democrats in a 46-43 vote to package the two statehood proposals. Senate Majority Leader William Knowland, who had failed to hold his Republican colleagues together for the Eisenhower Administration's Hawaii bill, furrowed...