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...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...
...Because Meniere's symptoms come and go unpredictably, evaluation of any treatment is a long and tedious process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew which was the drug and which was the dummy sugar pill, Dr. Joseph C. Elia of Reno reported excellent results. Three-fourths of the time, the patients on the drug enjoyed relief from dizziness, nausea and headache; the tinnitus response was not so uniform, but still substantial...
...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...
...Nevada has the highest suicide rate (22.5) of any state, and the West Coast the highest of any region. Nevada's high rate presumably results from the state's low population outside of Reno and Las Vegas, where gambling, drinking and divorce create a high-crisis quotient. The West Coast's rate is probably high because of the large number of people who move there after retirement and bring with them the increased suicide rale that goes with advancing years. Another factor is that the West Coast attracts the ambitious and restless who are inclined to react...