Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visited the preserve. The department cautioned against such actions in the future, but not a single officer will be subject to disciplinary action. Among the guests: Vice Admiral W.D. Houser, deputy chief of naval operations for air warfare; Admiral John P. Weinel, former planning director for the Joint Chiefs; Nevada Democratic Senator Howard Cannon, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power; and Democratic Representative Robert Legett of the House Armed Services Committee. All were in a strong position to help Northrop sell...
...thorough is Lewis' dedication to Western fiction that he leaves the family farm in Iowa to enroll in a Nevada college that promises to put the finishing touches on his art. Instead, the college puts them to Lewis. The entire faculty consists of two con men in the back room of a fleabag hotel, bilking suckers by mail. Fleeing this harsh reality, Lew is also accidently makes off with a strongbox full of several thousand dollars worth of tuition money bamboozled from the suckers of the nation's heartland. Wandering in the desert, lugging the strongbox, Lewis...
...Loeb should know.He was born in Washington. D.C., and his official residence is in Nevada...
...state government picks up the full nonfederal tab). In New York, where the AFDC bill is split 50% federal, 25% state and 25% local, officials of Oneida and Orange counties simply decided to stop contributing. In California's Plumas County, an impoverished timber area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, local welfare costs have risen by $60,000 from a year ago; the county board voted not to finance the full increase. These revolts have been challenged in the courts by state officials...
...scenery is nice - mostly New Mexico and Nevada - but Brooks' notion of staging a scene is to plant the actors in the middle of the frame and have them talk. The dialogue is not worth such attention. Coburn is called on to describe Hackman as "the cham pion of dumb animals, women in dis tress and lost causes." Candice Bergen points out to the hotheaded Jan-Michael Vincent (the kid looking to make a reputation) that "killin' someone don't make you a man." Brooks occasionally offers some comic relief (Whore...