Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partly accomplished by bussing Negroes to junior high and high school. He once strode into a TV studio to interrupt an education speech by Governor Grant Sawyer, accused .him of "irresponsible leadership" in bucking most educational problems to the rural-dominated legislature. When an official of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called Newcomer's school budget phony, Newcomer said the man "either can't read, or he's stupid, or he's dishonest...
21/2 Acres of Carpet. Today Newcomer's district has an annual budget of $29.2 million, almost triple that of four years ago and more money than is spent by any other public agency in Nevada. In the same period, enrollment has risen to 58,000, which is 52% of the whole state's pupils, yet double sessions have been eliminated. Teacher sal aries have risen 25% and teacher turn over has been cut to 14% . Newcomer's own salary is $26,500-making him the state's highest-paid official...
...most people in Nevada deeply respect Newcomer's educational philosophy. "There isn't a kid in the world who isn't a genius or a near genius in some things, or a moron in others," he says. The schools, says Newcomer, must "find ways to analyze each child in terms of his uniqueness as a human being...
...other cities-the G.O.P. has an example and an incentive to elaborate less rigid club rules and, indeed, to expand the club. To be sure, some Republicans are deeply offended by the way in which John Lindsay peeled off his party uniform before the battle. Among them was Nevada National Committeeman Melvin Lundberg, who growled, "If you tie a lemon on an orange tree, it's still not an orange." Yet the Democratic Party has never discouraged expedient hybridization-provided, at least, that oranges and lemons continue to hang from the same tree and wear the grower...
Clara Bow never found the limelight again. Her comeback efforts-two pictures, a Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons...