Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading the fight for the ERA in North Dakota's house-a letter that Kretschmar says he used effectively in bringing off a victory. Pleased by the success, she then placed calls to state legislators in Illinois, where the ERA finally got out of committee; to Nevada, where it was subsequently passed by the assembly but defeated in the senate; and to Missouri, where the amendment was passed in the house. A call to Old Friend Barry Goldwater, however, proved unavailing; Arizona's senate voted against the amendment last month. "I'm not trying to twist anyone...
This reasonably heartfelt political documentary concerns the Battle Mountain Indian colony, part of the Western Shoshone Tribe in Nevada, and its resistance to being abused and cheated by the U.S. Government. The Indians say that they have ownership rights to over 24 million acres of land in Nevada, according to a treaty signed in 1863. The U.S. says they do not, but has offered to make some sort of settlement for the land anyhow. If the Indians cool down and keep quiet, the Government will pay them a little over a dollar for each acre-exactly what the land...
Many of Jong's problems as a successful novelist will be the subject of her next book (tentatively titled How to Save Your Own Life). She spent last fall commuting to Hollywood to write the screenplay of Flying, and is now packing up for a long stay in Nevada or California, where she will work on her new novel and some poetry as well. Last week Jong and her husband began separation proceedings. As Flying clearly implies and as Jong confirms, "there were problems in our marriage from the start-those of a very verbal person married...
...doesn't feel out of touch with things that are going on back home--something that Jim Sam sees as a problem for Indian students--because his father, a Paiute Indian and the executive director of the Nevada Indian Affairs Commission, keeps him well informed. "He's given me a million books to read," Morres says...
...came to Harvard after taking a year off, during which he "bought a bus pass and traveled 30,000 miles in two months, visited 30 different schools, worked in New York City for a month, stayed here at Harvard for two months, and worked as a page in the Nevada State Legislature." Once he got here, he found that, in some ways, it was easier to adjust to Harvard than to high school...