Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only three oarsmen, Rob Lolff at seven, Fred Fisher at four, and Joe Bragwell at three, return from last July's unsuccessful boat, and together with four sophomores, a senior up from the JV's, and a new cox, from a distinctly different, smoother rowing crew...
...sometime revolutionaries that sounds fearsomely monolithic but is actually as disorganized and ragtail as Coxey's Army. At the S.D.S. national convention in Chicago last week, the internal dissension was so severe that the five-day meeting promised to be the most chaotic in S.D.S.'s seven-year history-and possibly the last...
...that prostitution is also tolerated in 15 out of the state's 17 counties.* In such communities as Elko, Esmeralda and Nye, the brothel is practically an institution, like the corner drugstore and the county courthouse. Overall, one involved Nevadan opines, there are 30 to 40 brothels, with seven to ten girls apiece, in the 15 permissive counties. The opulence (or lack of it) of these industries, and the beauty and skill of the inhabitants, are grounds for civic pride (or concern). One year, the town fathers of Wells noted that visitors seemed to be having trouble locating...
...ranch" even has air service. Owned by Rick Blakemore, an unpaid deputy sheriff of Nye County, Mustang Air Service operates two Cessna 206s on the run between Las Vegas and Tonopah, making seven stops en route at bordellos like Cottontail Ranch. In addition to transporting Johns named Smith, "I fly the girls to and from the houses and take the doctor and the county health officer on regular Saturday inspection tours," says Blakemore. He performs other official functions, like fingerprinting the prostitutes in each brothel for the sheriff's office files. "This is a dirty, rotten business," he cheerfully...
...addition to its other contributions, Children's Theater is attempting to fill a sub-generation gap. "There are programs for the very young children and programs for the teenagers, but nothing in between," explains June Reig, the Theater's writerdirector. "We are aiming particularly at the seven-to-ten crowd." The message has apparently been lost on older viewers. Recent surveys show that as much as 62% of the Theater's audience is adult...