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...snows that gave the state its name† began melting on the mountain flanks. Below the snowline, 110,000 sq. mi. of the nation's sixth biggest state came alive with spring activity. Along the Sierra Nevada, Basque sheepherders led freshly shorn flocks to summer pasture, kept wary vigil against marauding mountain lions. In the revived ghost town of Virginia City, cars disgorged Midwestern tourists to gaze at Piper's Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude ranches. Along Las Vegas' gaudy Strip...
...spread to the remotest corners of Europe, swarms of gypsies got into their cars and trailers and headed for the town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
...hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier between Russia and the rest of the world (save for a small, frozen strip of Norway) that the U.S. is committed to defend...
After the first operation, daughter Anna broke hospital rules and spent the night at her father's bedside, thus beginning a 16-year vigil during which, often for months at a time, she was always within call. Freud himself was not told that examination of the removed tissues revealed cancer, although more surgery was soon necessary for "an unmistakably malignant ulcer in the hard palate which invaded ... the upper part of the lower jaw and even the cheek." First, a carotid artery was tied off, and glands beneath the upper jawbone (some of them already suspiciously enlarged) were removed...
...officials concerned with managing the U.S. economy both spoke up for the tight-money policy. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson in a speech to the World Bank-IMF meeting noted that the U.S. is "gaining in the battle of inflation," but stressed "the continuing vigil we must keep to attain economic growth along with, and based on, sound money." Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin warned that nations yielding to inflation "will not have a higher standard of living but a lower...