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North Carolina St. 71, Nevada-Las Vegas...
Public hearings will begin within the next two weeks at sites now being considered in Nevada. Washington, and Virginia, Stein said...
...take Dilger, a fighter pilot and former dogfight instructor, long to decide that he did not want to replace the GAU8 with some expensive missile. The General Electric cannon performed spectacularly in tests. Over a simulated battlefield in the Nevada desert, his A-10 pilots destroyed 65% of their targeted tanks at a distance of 3,000 ft., and more than 80% at 2,000 ft. The cannon fires off 70 rounds a second. Says Dilger: "We found that the optimal burst to kill a tank was only 35 rounds...
...uncontested Republican primary. But now, with the possibility of Democratic white flight to the Epton camp, the Republican Party is dispatching some of its bigger guns to the fray. James Fletcher, who engineered Illinois Governor James Thompson's first gubernatorial victory, has signed on with the Epton campaign. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is scheduled to speak this week on Epton's behalf at a $200-a-plate fund-raising dinner. Epton hopes for an initial $200,000 from the committee. Said a hopeful Epton last week, noting that Washington won with only...
...Dime Box, Tex., to Bagley., Mon., to Cape Porpoise. Maine, and never pass outside the U.S. border, except for a small stretch of southern Canada. The faces of small-town America are as varied as their climates and geographies, from the Creoles of Louisiana to the Navajos of Nevada to the Yankees of Vermont. Yet if Blue Highways shows us the wide variation between these people, it makes their similarities even more striking--above all their fierce pride and sense of individuality...