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Bloodhounds working from the scent of a baseball cap found near the prison traced Dallas as far as the Paradise Hill Bar near Winnemucca, Nev., close to the mobile home where he had been captured four years ago. To some locals, Dallas embodied all the old gunslinger's heroics. He had proved that he was a faster draw than the wardens, who, in this view, had no business invading his mountain camp to find out whether he was poaching game, a God-given right in the wilderness. Never mind that Dallas had pumped shots into the heads of both victims...
Anticipating a federal green light for the collider, 28 states are lobbying to be home to the sprawling complex, which, in addition to generating thousands of jobs, could attract other high-tech businesses to the area. In that respect, says Bob Chandler, city manager of Winnemucca, Nev. (pop. 5,270), one of the contending sites, "it's a hundred times better than the General Motors' Saturn plant...
Some of the worst behavior toward the homeless seems to have subsided since last fall, partly because of publicity and legal actions filed on behalf of victims. A flurry of civil suits in Winnemucca, Nev., charge that the 20- member police force has been tossing "undesirables" into garbage pits or driving them deep into the desert and leaving them. Troll-busting attacks on the homeless in Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz are sharply down from 1984. But the intimidation appears to have taken its toll nonetheless. "After the attacks and the shooting into the bushes and cars where they sleep...
This year, McLaughlin cleaned house and paid for it dearly (8-21, 6-8 Ivies). His final inheritance from the previous era--a brutal schedule and an "If it's Tuesday, it must be Winnemucca" West Coast road trip--left his troops in a state of moral and physical decline...
Swingman Hooft, the Winnemucca whiz, alternated between a starting and sixth-man role last year but still managed to connect for double-digits in 18 of Harvard's 26 contests...