Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years that he has been at the University of Nevada, Minard Stout, 49, has in one way chalked up a record that any university president might envy. He trebled state support coming from bond issues and appropriations, upped private gifts ten times. He raised faculty salaries 68%, set up colleges of education and business administration, a graduate school, a school of nursing, and a junior college in Las Vegas. But ever since he got Biologist Frank Richardson fired for accusing him of lowering academic standards (TIME, June 15, 1953), he has been the center of the bitterest storm ever...
...Lecturer-Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox-Bow Incident) resigned in protest; other scholars charged Stout with everything from "favoritism" to "inhuman and capricious treatment," and last spring the American Association of University Professors censured the administration for violation of academic freedom and tenure. By that time, the Nevada legislature had gone out after Stout...
...Bullen renewed his plea for scientific explosions. This time he got a part of what he wanted. Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist-commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wired him that the AEC will explode this week a smallish atomic charge 800 ft. below the surface of a Nevada mountainside. Libby told the time (Sept. 14, 10 a.m. Eastern daylight-saving time) and place (North 890600 and East 635000 on the Nevada state grid system). If there is a delay of more than two minutes in firing the shot. the test will be postponed for 24 hours...
...Bullen expressed gratitude. There would not be time, he said, to set up special apparatus in remote places, but the world's 600-odd established seismic stations will be listening. The waves from Nevada will surely be recorded all over the earth...
...satisfied. As she saw it, Stewart's promotion was clearly a case of rewarding not the colonel but the glamorous male lead in Strategic Air Command. She grimly put her foot down, and out of senatorial courtesy the Senate committee passed over Colonel James Stewart, U.S.A.F.R. Vacationing in Nevada after a two-week active-duty tour in July with a B-52 outfit in Limestone, Me., Pilot Stewart landed smoothly. Said he: "I was very honored to receive the nomination by President Eisenhower and the Air Force. I intend to continue to do my best to fulfill my duty...