Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Lieut. David Sleeves got considerable mileage out of his dramatic story of a bail-out from his T-33 jet over California's Sierra Nevada range and the ensuing 54 days during which he claims to have trekked (on sprained ankles) precariously through the wilderness. Returning to civilization sporting a handsome beard (TIME. July 15). Steeves. 23, was taken in tow by Air Force pressagents, sat for newspaper interviews, repeatedly told his dramatic survival story on TV. and finally got a $10.000 offer for his story from the Saturday Evening Post. Last week the sonic boom cracked around...
...divorced Vera von Hossenfeldt, a longtime friend who had lived in the U.S. during the war. Vera described Alfried as "the only man I ever loved," but she divorced him four years later and returned to the U.S., where she now lives on a 400,000-acre ranch in Nevada...
...zinc. With zinc prices down to 10? a lb. v. 13½? three months ago, Southwest's Eagle-Picher Co. will lay off 1,100 workers by closing its lead and zinc mines in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Other big mine shutdowns are on their way in New Jersey, Nevada, California...
Three miles up in the bright blue Nevada sky, a slim rocket rigged to the underside of an F-89H twin-jet Scorpion came to fiery life, thrust loose from the speeding (around 600 m.p.h.) plane and streaked forward, far faster than sound. The F-89H banked sharply to the left to escape the coming blast. Four seconds later, a fireball flashed in the sky. It glowed for an instant like a newborn sun, then faded into a rosy, doughnut-shaped cloud...
...Radio), network executives eased their hypertension by scissoring out topical references to the Gaza Strip (it might offend Arabs and Zionists) and a simulated H-bomb explosion over a fictionalized Las Vegas (it might offend the State Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, the governor of Nevada, or somebody's aunt in Iowa). "Now I know what killed Fred Allen!" Stan Freberg cried, and complained of "panicky network people and panicky sponsors hanging like a tapioca curtain between the public and a comedian...