Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes." Less than a month after the birth of her second child, Rhett (TIME, July 18), Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel cut a lissome figure in Bermuda, where she was gathering strength for an October stint in a Las Vegas pleasure dome. Asked if the Nevada jaunt augurs a nightclub career, Singer Munsel piff-poofed: "No! Las Vegas will mean only a onetime excursion into another field so that I can get some of the innate ham out of my system...
...Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone has been granted a visa to Russia. Among those who have applied for visas are Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman, and Connecticut's Republican Senator William Purtell ("I hope to get the feel of the country"). Seriously considering trips to Russia are Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Henry Dworshak of Idaho and Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear of Delaware. Also mulling over the idea: Kentucky's grand old pro, Democrat Alben W. Barkley...
Built-in Booby Traps. The refugee program was disjointed originally by a Senate tug of war. At first the bill, called the Emergency Migration Act, was intended largely for people from Southern Europe barred by the low quotas of the McCarran-Walter Act, the basic U.S. immigration law. Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk...
...already counts 6,700 residents and is steadily climbing. The fertile Coachella Valley, north of California's Salton Sea, has doubled in population (from 16,000 to 32,000) since 1950, and Henderson, incorporated in 1953 twelve miles out in the desert from Las Vegas, has become Nevada's third largest city (after Las Vegas and Reno), with a population...
...desert's growth. There are few places on the desert where a man, for a price, cannot sink a well and bring up water. But the price is sometimes prohibitive, and the water table is going down. The Colorado is tapped for domestic and industrial use in Nevada's Clark County, for irrigation in the Yuma area of Arizona and (via the long All-American and Coachella Canals) in the Imperial Valley and the Coachella Valley, and for domestic consumption in Los Angeles. As the area grows and demand increases, men will have to find new sources...