Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working for Support. On a six-day, 6,780-mile junket through seven western states, Harriman moved fast and campaigned hard. He ranged across Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada in a chartered DC-3. Before he turned homeward, he had made 14 speeches, held ten press conferences, worked a backbreaking 17-hour day that sapped staff members and newsmen. On the 64-year-old New Yorker, the crushing schedule seemed to work like a tonic...
...Senate (present count: 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans, one vacancy) hinging on the outcome, both parties have applied steam-boiler pressure in recent months to push known vote getters into the most critical of this year's 32 senatorial contests. Last week the pressure from the Democratic boiler pushed Nevada's easygoing, cherubic Alan Bible, 46, elected in 1954 to fill the unexpired term of the late Pat McCarran, into a contest for which he had little taste: another Nevada Democratic primary campaign...
...fractured as a quartz crystal from the Comstock mines. Three other Democratic hopefuls, all of whom had politely waited until Bible announced his "retirement" last fall to jump into the race, gave little indication of getting out again. Most certain to benefit from the fracture: able Clifton Young, 33, Nevada's only Congressman, and the unopposed Republican choice for the Senate seat...
...test this theory, Dr. Miyake and his colleagues studied the world's weather maps. The wind pattern looked encouraging for the theory. On the day the radioactive material rose above the Nevada desert, there was a powerful wind waiting aloft to carry it eastward. The most probable route would take the atmospheric tracer across the U.S., the Atlantic, Europe, Central Asia and China. It should travel about 1,000 miles a day and should reach Japan in about the right time: two weeks...
Rain & Fogged Film. To find out whether the air mass actually traveled around the earth, the Japanese wrote to scientists along its theoretical route asking if they had seen any signs of it. Confirmation came from Paris, where radioactive rain had fallen. The fission products from faraway Nevada had also fogged photographic film as they drifted over Europe. Dr. Miyake is sure that the rest of the trajectory mapped out for the "tracer" is also accurate. The north-and-south waviness of the route is characteristic of the high altitude winds that blow around the earth in north temperate latitudes...