Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor Spiro Agnew; a devout Italian Catholic, Massachusetts' Governor John Volpe; and the son of a Basque shepherd, Nevada's Governor Paul Laxalt...
...than those in Washington, and are perennially harried by aggrieved voters. Partly as a result of introducing a sales tax, Robert Smylie, dean of U.S. Governors, lost out in Idaho's Republican primary in August. He was joined last week by incumbent Democrats in Alaska, Arizona, California and Nevada. Three of the losers-Alaska's Egan, California's Brown and Nevada's Grant Sawyer-also were trying to surmount the voters' antipathy to third terms...
Collapsing Dome. Southern California's ill winds have their genesis over the Great Basin, a vast plateau that includes the Mojave Desert and is bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada to the west. For reasons still not fully understood by meteorologists, dry winds from the north and northwest are occasionally trapped over the basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls...
...NEVADA GOVERNOR 44% of the vote Laxalt (R) 2300 (winner) Sawyer...
...Having promised to stump all 50 states, Johnson plans to zip through 15 of them in four days to make good his word. He will dash from New England to the Midwest and the Northwest the first day, campaign along the West Coast the second, stop off in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona...