Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many middle-class whites are forced to confront prisons for the first time, there to visit their own children, locked up for possession of pot or draft resistance. A time when many judges have finally begun to make personal ?and traumatic?inspections. After a single night at the Nevada State Prison, for example, 23 judges from all over the U.S. emerged "appalled at the homosexuality," shaken by the inmates' "soul-shattering bitterness" and upset by "men raving, screaming and pounding on the walls." Kansas Judge E. Newton Vickers summed up: "I felt like an animal in a cage...
...convinced that they do. By carefully studying the rise, he says, scientists may be able to locate more of the rich mineral deposits that were lifted close to the surface. Further analysis of this underground activity may also help explain the slight but puzzling earth tremors that periodically plague Nevada and Colorado, which lie outside the Pacific earthquake belt. Finally, such studies may bring some needed enlightenment about California's San Andreas Fault, a 600-mile crack running through the surface of the earth that was probably created by the underlying rise and may still be affected...
Whenever stockbrokers gather these days, talk usually turns to the dispiriting topic of unemployment. Among the season's favorite horror stories are those of the $100,000-a-year Smith, Barney man who is now pumping gas in San Francisco, the top Nevada broker who works as a short-order cook in Reno, and the uncounted troop of Wall Street casualties who drive taxis in New York City. But there is a resilient breed of ex-brokers who have rebounded from the stock market slump by starting lucrative new careers. Though their ventures vary widely, the once-busted brokers...
Total Surrender. Somehow, Davis and Gay had to convince the Nevada authorities and the public that Hughes was alive and well on Paradise Island, and that they were indeed acting on his orders. Their solution: a 1:30 a.m. phone call from Hughes to District Attorney George Franklin and Governor Paul Laxalt, a friend and tennis partner of Maheu's. Hughes, as Laxalt later told it, joked that reports of his death were "exaggerated." He said that he was vacationing and planned to return to Las Vegas. He assured Laxalt that he wanted Maheu fired. "There is no doubt...
...private meetings, Maheu sought to salvage what he could. Davis demanded total surrender: Maheu's banishment from the Hughes empire, from his houses, from Las Vegas and from Nevada. Maheu demanded concessions: protection against any future suits charging mismanagement, a fat severance check, and assurance that Toolco would take over the commitments that he had assumed over the years in Hughes' name. Nevada businessmen were worried about who would pay off the many Hughes obligations−Maheu, Toolco or Howard Hughes. They were not alone in their concern; employees chose up sides and wondered who would pay them...