Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into being to specialize in them (e.g., Campbell & Wong Associates. Francis Lloyd). San Franciscans, for example, stream out of their fogbound city in the late spring and summer. Those who can afford the best have summer houses along the northern Emerald Bay area of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada line; the less affluent have cottages around the perimeter of the lake. Other rich Californians have summer houses on the magnificent Del Monte peninsula near Carmel and Monterey. More and more ordinary families, however, are moving into the rugged country north of San Francisco...
Some 650 ft. below the hard clay surface of Nevada's Frenchman Flat, technicians carefully installed the device in a 6-ft.-high and 75-ft.-long chamber lined with plywood and floored with fine gravel. For a while a contrary wind sweeping across the area threatened to postpone the shot. Then the wind faded and the device was detonated. Standing on a mountain-top 57 miles away, observers could not hear the explosion. But they saw its effect perfectly: a great mass composed of thousands of tons of granite boulders, sand, clay, yucca trees, sagebrush, tumbleweed, and even...
Died. Rex Bell (real name: George Beldam), 58, Nevada's ten-gallon lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee in this year's gubernatorial race, who in 1931, as a six-gun star of the silent screen, eloped with Clara (the "It Girl") Bow, once owned a 600,000-acre ranch, which he sold in 1953 when he won office; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
Within two months. Jungle Jim was off the ground, rounding up men and air planes. Each volunteer undergoes three separate psychological interviews, a check of his family situation to make sure he can leave for a risky mission on short notice, and a grueling 21-day survival course at Nevada's Stead Air Force Base. Each officer and airman of the Air Commandos must know how to do every job in the outfit. The aircraft are picked with equal care for reliability and ease of repair under primitive conditions. The T-28s fly slowly (top speed: 346 m.p.h...
Cresting at 250,000 ft. over Nevada, the sleek black rocket-plane once again broke the world's altitude record, a habit the experts think the X-15 will continue until it doubles that height. The ten-minute ride to the fringes of space won Air Force Major Bob White, 38, the double distinction of becoming the world's highest and fastest (4,093 m.p.h.) winged-aircraft pilot. Upon landing on Rogers Dry Lake, Calif., White was debriefed with a frosty martini mixed by the flight surgeon&3151;another X-15 project habit...