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Asheville, N.C., and Knoxville, Term., head the dozen areas recommended for retirement. The list does not include a single city in Florida, California, Texas or Arizona. Reason: those Sunbelt states' expensive housing, high crime rates and air-conditioning costs. On the other hand, cities such as Reno, Las Vegas and Dallas-Fort Worth offer the young single person an ideal mix of economic opportunity and outdoor activities...
...hang around the wet-haired female denizens of Blodgett Pool--the Harvard women's swim team--long enough, you might hear them saying unusual things like, "Today we swam to New York City!" or, "Today we swam all the way to Reno, Nevada!" Don't be too perturbed; the women are just discussing their novel fund-raising approach for the upcoming winter trip to California. The 30-member squad has decided to collectively swim 3000 miles over the next four weeks--approximately the distance between Boston and Los Angeles. According to co-captain MAUREEN GILDEA, this breaks down to about...
Hughes. With that same cheery, golden bantam innocence, Dummar has now launched a Nevada nightclub act. Booked into a two-week stand at the Sahara in Reno, he has included two bittersweet Dummar compositions in his act, The Ail-American Dreamer and Thank You Howard...
...while still serving as a pillar of the West Coast financial establishment, began imagining himself a buckaroo blackjack hero. For six years he worked feverishly to acquire the necessary skills, practicing rigorous memory drills and doing complex statistical calculations. In 1974 he went to Harrah's Casino in Reno to put himself to the test. He won $3,000 and never looked back...
...subject of their deadpan ridicule is the netherworld of Reno lounge acts and Rotary Club M.C.s, talk-show ciphers and the I-hate-you-but-deep-down-inside-I'm-a-wonderful-guy Janus face of Don Rickles. To the post-funny comics, all the world's a cramped stage in a seedy Newark bar, and all the men and women -onstage or off-merely sweaty-palmed buffoons following the dog act. With devastating acuity, the post-funny comics evoke these laugh-cadging mendicants of the entertainment industry. And because the post-funnies are superb deadpan actors, their...