Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after another, previously uncommitted members of the U.S. Senate fell into line for ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty-Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas, North Carolina Democrats Everett Jordan and Sam Ervin, Nevada Democrat Alan Bible, Iowa Republican Jack Miller, Colorado Republican Peter Dominick, Nebraska Republican Roman Hruska and South Carolina Democrat Olin Johnston...
...Russia used Cuba to circumvent the test ban in any way, and that the treaty would not bar the U.S. from using nuclear weapons for defense; as if to punctuate his letter, the Atomic Energy Commission set off two more nuclear blasts at its underground test site in Nevada...
...HANK GREENSPUN, a blustering, cantankerous sometime politician and newsman, came down from Nevada last January to pick the bones of the Arizona Journal and, failing in that mission, bought a successful shopping throwaway, the Phoenix Sun, as a kind of consolation prize. Greenspun, who also publishes the Las Vegas Sun, hopes to have his Phoenix Sun rising daily before the end of the year...
...interest in publishing seems inspired by something other than the ambition to add a mite to the measure of the U.S. press. Of the three men, only Greenspun can claim any newspaper experience. But all three are disappointed politicians. Republican Hank Greenspun took a flyer at the governorship of Nevada in 1962 and was ignominiously shot down in flames. In 1948 and again in 1950, Cattleman Smith unsuccessfully sought the nomination as Democratic candidate for Arizona Governor-and in neither case did he get any help from Phoenix's two Republican papers. Last year Mecham, running against Arizona...
Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...