Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble was, Meneghini kept saying "No." Since Italy countenances no divorces at all, nothing could be done about the situation in the country where they were married. To make matters worse, a husband's cooperation is usually required, even in such mills as Mexico and Nevada, if the divorce is to be recognized elsewhere. Maria appeared stuck. There was nothing to do but continue cruising the world with her great and good friend, Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis...
When the U.S. ran out of silver dol lars a year and a half ago, it meant only one thing for Nevada's gambling casinos: snake eyes. Gone were the traditional silver-dollar slot machines, the familiar clank of "cart wheels," the bulging pants pockets. At least until onetime Adman Joseph Segel came on the scene...
Although a few speculators had already introduced metal tokens into a few Nevada houses-notably Spark's Nugget and Lake Tahoe's Wagon Wheel -Segel's tokens (usually nickel alloy) began rolling around the state like tumbleweed, are now being shoved into the slots of one-armed bandits in 50 of the state's 70 gambling houses. For the operators, it means more than nostalgia. The coins have proved a source of revenue. Customers have taken such a shine to tokens that instead of cashing them in for a dollar upon leaving, they have begun...
...little town of St. George, which likes to boast that "this is where the sun spends the winter," sits astride U.S. Highway 91 in southwestern Utah-and directly in the path of southwest winds blowing from the AEC's Nevada test site for underground atomic explosions, 140 miles away. Time and again since 1952, much of Utah, and especially St. George, has been showered with at least 100 and perhaps 1,000 times more radioactivity than the U.S. average. One of the most active elements in the fallout has been iodine-131, which gets into grass, then into cows...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A report on an experiment begun in 1962 when the Nevada State Prison allowed Synanon, an association of former drug addicts similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, to try to rehabilitate criminals who were not necessarily addicts...