Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mild variety caused by still unidentified viruses; New Eng land, Georgia and Florida had spotty outbreaks caused by Type B influenza virus. California, hardest hit, was in the throes of an epidemic of Asian Type-A flu. And Californians were spreading the virus in their Nevada playgrounds, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Las Vegas...
...theory, U.S. marriages can be ended only by the state of domicile-the state in which the parties really live. Actually, such states as Idaho and Nevada permit divorce after only six weeks' residence, and solemnly accept the visitor's lie that he or she aims to stay. The other states, including New York, accept such divorces because the Constitution commands all states to give "full faith and credit" to one another's court judgments. On the other hand, no state is required to recognize the highly popular 24-hour Mexican divorce, which shuns the domicile...
...Chief Justice Stephen J. Field, later California's first U.S. Supreme Court Justice. After the Civil War, in which he became a Confederate general, Terry represented the notorious Sarah Althea Hill in her battles to prove that she had been the wife rather than the paramour of a Nevada millionaire. In 1888, after Terry himself married Sarah, the case came before Supreme Court Justice Field, who was also serving as California's U.S. circuit judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After his release, he attacked Field...
...ultimately the respect of everyone he approached, including the killers. His memory stored scores of interviews, which he set down later in 6,000 pages of notes. His ear and his eye caught everything: Perry Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...
...fortunate was Clifford Jones, former Nevada lieutenant governor (1947-54) and now a big gambling casino operator in Las Vegas and the Caribbean. Jones was charged with perjury for denying that he had paid Baker, through Bromley, $10,000 for services rendered...