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David Stacton, 37, is a Nevadan who wears cowboy boots, is fond of both Zen and bourbon, and is as nearly unknown as it is possible for a writer to be who has written, and received critical praise for, 13 novels (all have been published in England, five in the US.). His books, most of which have historical themes, are masses of epigrams marinated in a stinging mixture of metaphysics and blood. Mostly they resemble themselves, but something similar might have been the result if the Due de la Rochefoucauld had written novels with plots suggested by Jack London. Stacton...
Tall (6 ft. 2-| in.) Tom Mechling decided to make the race a year ago while covering Washington newsheets for the Kiplinger Washington Letter. A veteran (Air Intelligence), he became a Nevadan in 1945, married the daughter of a wealthy Wells (Nev.) rancher. In Washington, Tom was a hard-digging reporter with an unquenchable idealism. Said a fellow Kiplinger staffer: "Tom's the slow burn type. But when he gets mad. he'll pop." Tom Mechling's slow burn began with the stories Margaret carried home evenings from her patronage job as a stenographer on Pat McCarran...
Heading into the Panama Canal one morning last week, the skipper of the 7,517-ton American-Hawaiian line freighter Nevadan got word that his ship was due for a little ceremony. There was just time for deckhands to whip on their shirts. Off the Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than...
Last February the hefty Nevadan armed himself for the next foray with a huge tomahawk: a Senate Resolution empowering him to investigate any of the 3,374 presidential executive orders issued since March 4, 1933. With this power tucked in his belt, Pat McCarran sat quietly in the wigwam of his Senate Judiciary Committee, biding his time...
...charged that she had moved to Reno to "perpetrate a fraud on the New Jersey and Nevada courts"-that is, not to become a Nevadan but just to become an exwife...