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Federal Disapproval. So far. seven states-Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Nevada, Texas and Washington-have legalized Laetrile: Delaware, New Hampshire and Oklahoma will join them as soon as their Governors sign authorizing bills or let them become law without their signatures. Similar legislation is pending in twelve states and will probably be revived in seven others when their legislatures reconvene. In addition, Nevada has approved the manufacture and sale of Gerovital. Oregon has legalized DMSO and soon may approve saccharin, which has already been okayed by Indiana. (Apparently heeding FDA warnings that saccharin may cause cancer, legislators in Arizona...
Died. Paul Desmond, 52, jazz musician whose lyrical, witty alto saxophone counterpointed Dave Brubeck's assertive piano in Brubeck's quartet for 17 years; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Desmond composed few pieces for the group, but his Take Five, inspired by the sound of a Nevada slot machine, was the first instrumental jazz number to sell over a million copies...
Disaster Areas. Last week the Salt Lake City River Forecast Center reported that the water-supply outlook for Nevada, Arizona, Utah, eastern Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming is "gloomy to grim." In the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest the outlook is "bleak and becoming bleaker." In parched California the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted that the drought, "nearly two years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply...
...said to own 24% of the Aladdin Casino and virtually to control its operation. A court affidavit disclosing the probe was the first official word of Mob holdings in a Las Vegas casino since Nevada authorities supposedly ran them out of town about ten years...
...first coal slurry pipeline was used in London in 1914. Currently, the only one functioning in the U.S. is the Black Mesa Pipeline, which runs 273 miles from Kayenta, Ariz., to the Mohave Generating Station in southern Nevada. But since pressures are sure to mount on the nation's coal delivery system, four other slurry pipelines are in various planning stages, all in the West or Southwest...