Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevada Smith is an excerpt from The Carpetbaggers, blown into a widescreen western roomy enough to accommodate some of the sex and violence missing from the first, expurgated movie version of Harold Robbins' bestseller. Turning a thankless bit part created by the late Alan Ladd into a title role for Steve McQueen, Nevada follows a half-breed boy on an odyssey of vengeance in pursuit of three professional gunmen who murdered his white father, raped and skinned his Indian mother...
After a TV appearance, Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer, 47, got a letter from a nine-year-old constituent: "I saw you on TV last night for the first time. My Dad says not to worry. You are a lot smarter than you look." Last week a ten-year-old critic penned the following: "I'm writing to tell you that I'm going to be Governor some day. My father says I should finish grade school first, because I need an eighth-grade education to be as smart as you." Shrugged Sawyer: "A left-handed...
...availability of certificates of deposit." With that, the HLBB handed S & Ls more power to fight back. Abandoning its only restraining weapon over S & L interest rates, the board suspended a policy cutting off S & Ls paying more than 4½% in most states (and 5% in California and Nevada) on passbook accounts from borrowing privileges at the twelve Federal Home Loan Banks. "We were simply fighting windmills," explained Home. "Rather than penalize the good people who were holding the line on rates, we decided to discontinue a policy that was no longer effective...
Last month two Senate committees held hearings on the uses and abuses of LSD. In testimony, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Mental Health opposed federal legislation that would have made mere possession of LSD a crime-although California and Nevada have since passed such statutes. Restrictive legislation, say Administration officials, would only cut off the supply for legitimate research. (This has already partially happened because of LSD's notoriety.) Besides, it is argued, the situation can be handled by merely sharpening existing rules, to prohibit the unregistered manufacture, traffic and sale...
...Silver Spring, Maryland (English); James H. Cole, of Newton Center (History); Wesley A. Fisher, of New York City (Social Relations); Barry I. Forman, of Brookline (Philosophy); Jay A. Frogel, of Spring Valley, N.Y. (Astronomy); Stephen M. Gelber, of Los Angeles, Calif, (History and Literature); Allan S. Haley, of Nevada City, Calif, (Music); James H. Kettner, of Saginaw, Michigan (History); Kevin C. McMahon, of Scarsdale, N.Y. (History); Terrence F. Malick, of Bartlesville, Okla. (Philosophy); Alexander J. Nagel, of New York City (Mathematics); Barry F. O'Connell, of Moravia, N.Y. (History and Literature); Rand E. Rosenblatt, of Rome, Italy (Social Studies); Peter...