Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February 1968, when Lloyd Charles Powell was busted for vagrancy in Nevada, the arresting officer patted him down and found a gun that had been used in a liquor-store shooting the day before in San Bernardino, Calif. Powell, now 29, was convicted of the killing. In August 1970, police in Omaha were angrily investigating the bombing murder of a fellow officer; though they had little to go on, they got a search warrant from a local magistrate, went through the house of David Rice, a member of a Black Panther group, and found 14 Ibs. of dynamite and other...
...exactly prohibitive, but the limit may prove a harrowing restraint to the ample egos in the upper chamber. Just before the new rules were approved, Nevada's Howard Cannon-who happens to be chairman of the committee-had sent out a newsletter with nine references to himself on the first page, six on the second. His latest two-page newsletter, however, is a model of restraint: it contains a total of only five such references...
...areas. Any candidate winning a plurality of votes in a district will get all of the delegates from that locality. Each such election is in effect a mini-primary-and each candidate faces the delicate decision of whether or not to enter. A few states, including California, Michigan and Nevada, require a candidate to win only 10% or 5% of the vote, instead of 15%, in order to gain a share of the delegates...
...racers, production vehicles and jerry-rigged "Baja bugs" at insane speeds over camel-backed "whoopdedoos" spend a minimum of $10,000 on their rigs. The cash prizes for most races are about $2,000. In Laughlin, a rest-stop community of 100 residents and three casinos tucked away in Nevada's desolate southern tip, the car with the fastest time...
...frightening decisions to be made. An orphaned girl finds that to achieve her individual goals in today's America she must cease to cling to memories of her father and their harrowing experience of hiding in wartime Holland. A young couple begins a new and isolated life in Nevada, believing that "the only marriages that work [are] those where you say the hell with it, and then move out to Nevada or Alaska, or Brazil," only to discover that they are terrified by their separation from the values of society...