Word: reno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly a century, the name of Major Marcus Reno has been tainted with the suspicion that his cowardice was responsible for the massacre of Custer's Last Stand. Last week Manhattan Bartender Charles Reno, a grandnephew of the ill-fated cavalry officer, asked the Army to return the major to full rank and take his body from an unmarked grave in Washington for burial among his comrades at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery in Montana...
...pipeline to China) to the even more urgent job of deputy to Manhattan Project Boss General Leslie Groves, sharing vital information that Groves previously held alone, assuring a backup in case of accident, later coordinated operations for the A-bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; of cancer; in Reno...
...Washington for his first inaugural by a circuitous rail route that produced a famous telegram: PLUMS [Pinkerton] ARRIVED WITH NUTS [Lincoln] THIS MORNING. Plums and his men acted as Union spies during the Civil War, set up the Secret Service, spent the postwar years chasing such outlaws as the Reno Boys and the James Brothers. About the only tarnished spot on the Pinks' badge of honor was their later service when they hired out as company spies or strikebreakers in incidents like the 1892 steelworkers' strike against Andrew Carnegie's Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Still sensitive about...
...asked each of the Cabinet's 28 members to give a blow-by-blow account of his own electoral battles, delivered a wryly appropriate quote from Vergil when Veterans' Affairs Minister Alexandre Sanguinetti found it hard to talk about his defeat by 166 votes. "Infandum, regina, iubes reno-vare dolorem,"-murmured De Gaulle -"Unspeakable is the pain, O Queen, that you command me to relive...
...options, the economic ripples have spread. The price of some suburban acreage has slowed its long climb. Construction unemployment rose to 9.3% last month. So far this year, housing has slumped 30% in Omaha, 39% in Albuquerque, 40% in Philadelphia and El Paso, 51% in Los Angeles, 58% in Reno. Builder Dean Hunziker of Ames, Iowa, has cut his production from 100 to 72 homes a year, laid off half his work force. Houston Builder Conrad Harness, who planned to put up 100 apartments and 100 homes this year, now says he is building only 56 apartment units, because...