Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governors who lost out: Montana Democrat John E. Erickson in 1934; Nevada Democrat Edward P. Carville in 1946; Wyoming Democrat John Joseph Hickey in 1962; New Mexico Republican Edwin L. Mechem in 1964; Oklahoma Democrat J. Howard Edmondson in 1964. Kentucky Democrat Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler won senatorial elections...
...pride of rural residents who want their own school and fear the "corrupting" influence-and higher taxes-of the town school districts. The one-room school is most numerous in such Midwest states as Nebraska, Wisconsin and the Dakotas, most hardy in the mountain regions of Montana, Colorado and Nevada...
...Nevada's Governor Grant Sawyer, 46, figured to score zero-cool with the school set. "One basic need of youth is to participate in the responsibilities of adult life," he observed in a televised message to the state legislature, proposing to lower the minimum voting age from 21 to 18. One youth, however, was already participating by calling her father, Grant Sawyer, and telling him as soon as he left the air that his idea turned her off. Added Gail Sawyer, 15, a Carson City tenth-grader, in an interview: "If voting qualifications were lowered, most kids would just...
...reactor was a Kiwi, an obsolete experimental nuclear rocket engine built at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and used only for brief tests. It was set on an expendable railroad car on Nevada's desolate Jackass Flats and surrounded with a motley array of test objects-nuclear fuels, explosives, radiation detectors, air samplers. A stout steel net was hung to catch any flying debris, and the scientists retired to the control building two miles from the condemned power plant to wait for a northeast wind that would carry any radioactive fallout away from Nevada's inhabited areas...
...Aussie syndicate had learned how to beat the one-armed bandits? Impossible. Even when confronted with Australian press reports that the group had coined $225,000 in slot-machine jack pots before they were banned for life from most of New South Wales's gam bling clubs, Nevada's big wheels insisted "it could never happen here...