Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevada: An edge to native-daughter Pat Nixon's husband...
Adulterers in Connecticut run a risk of five-year jail terms, but in Kentucky can incur no heavier legal penalty than a $50 fine. Nevada does not even consider adultery a crime. Because of such disparities and contradictions. Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ploscowe, expert on U.S. criminal codes and a former New York City magistrate, argues for a major overhaul of U.S. sex laws in the current Duke University law review. Says he: "American men and women are continually upon the move. They should not be exposed to the risk of being branded felons in one state for sexual behavior that...
...Homosexual acts between consenting adults are misdemeanors in New York, but in Nevada and Michigan they are felonies punishable by life imprisonment...
...Marble Urn. Clint Hester had been friend and companion to his only son Bob. They often hiked and camped together in the Sierra Nevada. When young Bob decided that he wanted to learn to fly, Clint gladly encouraged him, allowed Bob to buy his own plane when he was 17. During World War II, air-struck Bob Hester inevitably joined the Air Corps. On Dec. 6, 1943, the B-24 that he was co-piloting disappeared in a raging storm over the Sierra Nevada. Search parties could find no trace of the plane or of its six-man crew...
Last week, in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada's Le Conte Canyon, 57 air miles from Lone Pine, two geologists and a park ranger came upon pieces of wreckage wedged among rocks near the outlet of an unnamed lake. In the waters of the lake, searchers found a shattered B-24 and all that remained of Bob Hester and his comrades...