Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your friends during the summer unless you go to Lake Tahoe? The lake is great for sailing, and the cocktail-party circuit is intense. After the healthy activities of the day, the energetic Lake Tahoeist can take off after dinner for the gambling casinos across the state line in Nevada, where any visitor can get a quick piece of the action. Most successful caterer to these mixed interests is River Ranch, a Currier & Ives styled encampment that opened only one year ago on the brink of the Truckee River just south of the lake, and has already become the place...
...perks of office enjoyed by Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer, 46, is an official car. Enjoyed? It's a black 1962 Lincoln Continental, and it has left him stranded a dozen times in the past three years. Worse yet, every time he tries to radio the highway patrol to come rescue him, all he gets is static. "It makes so much noise that you have to keep it turned off," says Sawyer, adding that the air conditioning works in winter, the heater in summer. Now, after much pleading, Grant is getting a new auto, once again...
...strength that unity could bring, and he set out in 1817 to unify by conquest. Within a year, his modest impi of 350 warriors had swollen to 2,000. In ten years, an army of 50,000 enforced Shaka's will over a domain the size of Nevada...
...Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming...
Lyndon's "Miss Kate," now Mrs. Chester C. Loney, 72, who lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Rough and Ready, Calif., was 19 then, remembers Lyndon well. "He was an adorable boy," she recalls. "He always sat on my lap when he recited his lessons. He would put a little finger under each word. You could see he was real pleased as he slowly made out the words, a letter at a time. He was bright and very affectionate." Yet for all her softness toward her youngest pupil, Kate Deadrich...