Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtue of seniority. For another, many of the reapportionment legislators-though generally better educated than the men they replaced-are political greenhorns. No less than 40% of Arkansas' state representatives are first-termers; in Utah, 56 of the 97 house and senate members are freshmen; 25 of Nevada's 60 lawmakers are sitting in the legislature for the first time. "It may be two or three legislatures from now before the new crop of lawmakers gain the experience necessary to make the system work," says a political veteran in Tennessee...
Behind the buffoonery, well intentioned but risky as it may be, is the simple fact that P.A.L., which flies in Oregon, Nevada and California, yearns for a bigger chunk of the West Coast business, which is contested by seven other airlines, including United and Western. Last year was not happy for Pacific-net income dropped from...
...Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti nent-spanning nation by acquiring territory now comprising Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming...
...glimpse of scenery than any other transcontinental U.S. train. The westbound passenger leaves Chicago in midafternoon, sleeps his way across the Nebraska plains, spends the next day traveling through the fir forests and deep gorges of the Colorado Rockies, sleeps the second night as the train rolls through the Nevada desert, wakes up on the final morning in California's breathtaking Feather River Canyon. En route, the train serves good, moderately priced food in dining cars that sport vases of fresh carnations at every table. Not surprisingly, the California Zephyr has proved increasingly popular with foreign tourists and Americans...
...state senate of Nevada unanimously adopted Joint Resolution No. Six, joining 37 other state legislatures in ratifying a U.S. constitutional amendment-the 25th. Passed by the 89th Congress in July 1965, it sets forth long-needed mechanics for presidential succession...