Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Actor's Workshop in San Francisco, labored for two weeks to clear the metaphysical boulders off the track. It didn't quite work out; the play remained disappointing and minor. On opening night after the first act, Williams nervously jumped from the Train to Bob's Nevada Lounge next door to wait for the final curtain. Later he warned first-nighters that he would keep trying to get the play around the bend. "I never know when I've finished," he said...
Shortly before noon on March 1, 1964, a four-engine Constellation operated by California's Paradise Airlines smashed into a snow-covered mountainside near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. All 85 aboard were killed. Now, after a 16-month investigation of the crash, the Civil Aeronautics Board has released a report finding that if the plane had been flying only 300 ft. higher or 300 yds. to the right, the disaster might have been averted. According to the CAB, the crash was caused by pilot error, sloppy ground maintenance, faulty equipment-and the falsification of a weather...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Interviewed at the Governors' Conference in Minneapolis: Governors Grant Sawyer of Nevada, Karl Rolvaag of Minnesota, John Connally of Texas, William Scranton of Pennsylvania, Mark Hatfield of Oregon, and Robert Smylie of Idaho...
...testimony. Couples determined to divorce often resort to staged infidelity, while those who can afford to, get divorces in other states. In theory, U.S. marriages can be ended only by the state of "domicile"-the state in which the parties really live. In practice, states such as Idaho and Nevada permit divorce after only six weeks' residence. And inconsistent as it seems, New York approves such divorces: the Constitution commands all states to give "full faith and credit" to one another's court judgments...
...however, the court sharply split over future Mexican divorces. The majority upheld them on pragmatic grounds. Since the state of domicile is no longer truly relevant, ruled the majority, it makes no sense to insist that a one-day Mexican divorce is substantially different from a six-week Nevada divorce. In light of the hardships caused by New York's divorce laws, suggested the court, "a balanced public policy requires that recognition of the bilateral Mexican divorce be given rather than withheld...