Word: nevadas
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...right of a U.S. citizen to move freely from one state to another has been repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court. In 1868 the court voided a $1 tax imposed by Nevada on anyone's leaving the state. The tax, said the court, interfered with the right of travel conferred by citizenship. Five years later, in a Louisiana case, the court listed the right of free interstate travel as a specific privilege of U.S. citizenship under Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution. In Edwards v. California (1941), the court tossed out, as an illegal abridgment of a citizen...
...domestic imitation ($1 a volume) of the Guide Michelin. Last year, Mobil Travel Guides covering the Northeastern States and the South Central and Southwestern States were released. Last week Guidebooks Nos. 3 and 4 appeared, under the sign of the Flying Red Horse: Great Lakes Area and California and Nevada...
Close to Nothing. Fire periled the whole area. NO SMOKING signs went up in Arizona's Apache, Coconino and six other national forests. Such precautions did not prevent more than 120 major forest fires in California,.Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
...that literally sucked the moisture out of fields and for ests. But the crisis has been building a long while. For 30 years the Colorado River's water level has been trending downward because of recurring droughts. Southern California is in its third straight spring of drought, and Nevada is in its fourth. Meanwhile, population, industry and farming have grown faster in the West than elsewhere in the U.S.-all of which has increased the pressure for water...
Died. George Wilson ("Molly") Malone, 70, dour, right-wing Nevada Republican, a onetime collegiate middleweight boxing champ who, during two U.S. Senate terms (1947 to 1959), flailed away at foreign aid, NATO, reciprocal trade, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, was one of Joe McCarthy's loudest backers and pride of the silver lobby; of cancer; in Washington...