Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholics) trouble arose not over pictures but over personal appearances: the chorines in three of the town's gilded night cages-the Dunes, the Stardust and El Rancho Vegas-glided about with their breast feathers completely plucked. In a message read this week from every Catholic pulpit in Nevada, Reno's Bishop Robert J. Dwyer gave the warning "that all Catholics are strictly forbidden by the divine law itself to have any part in entertainment which is of its nature indecent, suggestive or calculated to excite thoughts or actions contrary to the Sixth Commandment." Some Vegas saloonkeepers were...
...funds sought, $1,850,000 would be used to survey existing buildings, tunnels, subways, mines and cyclone cellars. Reason: Nevada and Eniwetok Atoll tests have shown that radiation can be cut to one-five-thousandth of its outside intensity by 3 ft. of soil, 2 ft. of concrete or 2½ inches of steel. Hoegh hopes to find many a shield of that size readymade. In addition he will finance architectural and engineering research on methods of incorporating more sophisticated shelters into new homes and buildings. He would also pick an underground garage, school or hospital under construction in each...
...then the idiot fringe that is made up of the unorganized wet-rock people-who behave as if they've just crawled out from under wet rocks and accuse me of being a Red for poking fun at Johnnie Ray, Lawrence Welk, Jack Webb, the whole State of Nevada and hearing aids." At the prices he now commands, Freberg reckons he can stand the complaints...
Three states which were missing from the School's enrollment last year, South Dakota, Idaho, and Nevada, have sent two, three, and two students respectively. This summer Massachusetts has the largest enrollment, 1542, an increase in excess of 300 from last year. Also represented are 258 students from 55 foreign countries...
...engine, which nuclear engineers consider a first step only, has been in development at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for three years under the code name of Project Rover. The first experimental engine, the Kiwi-A (which is not expected to fly, hence the name), is scheduled for testing in Nevada late this year, and an elaborate test setup is being built at Jackass Flats, a safe 20 miles (and many mountains) west of the Atomic Energy Commission's main test base...