Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housewives do not just shop any more, they take chances on a freight car full of oranges, or a new convertible stuffed with $27,000 in cash. This sort of thing may not be real gambling, but it does contribute to a gambling atmosphere. Says one interested witness, the Nevada Gaming Control Board's Wayne Pearson: "Statistically, gambling is the normal thing. It's the non-gambler who is abnormal in American society...
...keep out criminals. The counterarguments are that 1) even controlled gambling will lead many people into the habit who would not otherwise get hooked; 2) lotteries in particular are played mostly by lower-income families and thus constitute an unjust tax on the poor; 3) in places like Nevada, where gambling is legal, criminal elements have certainly not faded away. Virgil Peterson, director of the Chicago crime commission, argues that the underworld inevitably gains a foothold under any licensing system by organizing legal "fronts" and establishing rival illegal operations that place the state-operated venture at a disadvantage...
What makes college baseball any less of a training ground for future major leaguers than college football or basketball for their major leagues? University of Nevada Baseball Coach Bill Ireland displayed confidence in the quality of his 1967 squad by stating that he would like to field his team in the California league this summer. College baseball has come of age, as the instant success of Rick Reichardt, Rick Monday, etc., will attest...
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA Frank McCulloch, D.LET., Hong Kong bureau chief, TIME-LIFE News Service...
After years of sophisticated underground nuclear tests in Nevada, U.S. weapons scientists are confident that they have finally conceived an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system that can be effective. Sidestepping the complex problem of directly intercepting an attacking 17,000-m.p.h. intercontinental ballistic missile with a defensive missile -a feat equivalent to hitting a flying bullet with another bullet-they have designed a system that will use great bursts of X rays from exploding nuclear warheads to destroy enemy missiles at a distance...