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...Nevada, where the roads are mostly flat, straight and empty, drivers never did like to poke along. Nevada was the last state to comply with the federally imposed 55-m.p.h. limit in 1975, and last week it was the first to try officially to break it, upping the speed limit to 70 m.p.h. on a short stretch...
...Just after dawn each day, about 40 gather at the hillside, pick up pails and sift through the dirt and sagebrush for rusted metal and twisted steel. They occasionally dig up the nozzle of a Polaris missile or the casing of a 1,000-lb. bomb. Under the pitiless Nevada sun, each averages 1,000 lbs. of scrap metal a day. "It's rough work," says Billy Marshall of Hawthorne, Nev. "When I started, young guys would spend one day, say it was too rough and leave...
Marshall is one of a few dozen locals who have stuck it out as a scraphog at a 743-acre site near the Hawthorne Army ammunition plant in northern Nevada. Succumbing to public pressure to clean up its old demolition ranges, the Army last year turned over to a civilian contractor the tricky business of clearing the Hawthorne site, which had become a sprawling dump for more than 30 years' worth of defective or leftover bombs. The winner of the $3.2 million contract was a small new firm based in Washington named UXB International. (UXB, which stands for "unexploded bomb...
...Justice, Earl Warren, had seemed like a moderate Republican as Governor of & California and promptly turned out to be an innovative liberal as a jurist. A short list of half a dozen contenders was drawn up. It did not include any of Reagan's old political buddies, such as Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and former Interior Secretary William Clark. The President's instructions had the effect of eliminating Attorney General Edwin Meese from consideration. Meese later insisted that he was not interested in joining the court, but his friends think he will be available for any future openings...
...Vice President's campaign aides argued that a strong Robertson candidacy would actually help protect Bush on his vulnerable right flank by drawing support from conservatives such as Kemp and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt. But W. Clark Durant III, a Detroit attorney who chairs Kemp's operation in Michigan, maintains that the Vice President was the big loser last week. "While a lot of the numbers may be overstated or double counted or muddled, the message is really very clear," says he. "The Republican grass roots want an alternative to George Bush. Even by his own count, Bush didn...