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...Ryan was born in 1912 in the small town of Ely, Nev. to an Irish copper miner and his German wife. Before she was two, her father moved the family to Artesia, Calif., where he bought a ten-acre truck farm. Pat's mother died when she was 13, leaving her to do all the housework and some of the fieldwork. Eleanor Stegeberg was born in 1921 on a South Dakota farm at the outset of the great farm depression. Her mother died when she and her twin sister Ila were eleven. There was never much money but there...
Skyjacking had never looked easier. Last week, a few hours after daybreak, Frank Markoe Sibley Jr., 43, of Stateline, Nev., pulled a ski mask over his face, slung an M-l rifle across the handlebars of his bicycle, and pedaled through a gap in the fence surrounding the Reno Municipal Airport-the same gap used by another hijacker three months ago. (Reno has applied for federal funds for a new fence, but has yet to receive them.) Ditching his bike, he slipped the rifle under his green field jacket, bulled his way into the line of passengers boarding a United...
After 8½ months of pregnancy, Dancer Juliet Prowse, 35, decided that marriage might be a good idea. She flew off from Hollywood to Stateline, Nev., with Singer John McCook and ordered up a wedding at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel -only to find that she was too late. The baby was on its way, so she rushed to a hospital and was delivered of a boy, 7 Ibs. 15 oz. Said McCook: "This will postpone the marriage for a while...
...vote was actually a revision of Senator Howard W. Cannon's (D-Nev.) amendment to Mansfield's proposal Cannon proposed an amendment to withdraw troops from South Vietnam 90 days after passage of the legislation provided Hanoi agreed to the release of American POW's and an accounting of those missing in action...
...Still, nothing that he had ever done before came close to equaling his record-breaking leap in El Paso. He gives at least partial credit for that effort to a new pole he used that day, which was developed by Herbert Jenks, a fiber-glass expert from Carson City, Nev. Seagren's pole weighs only 6 Ibs. instead of the standard 61 Ibs. and has a thinner than usual cross section, which allows for a better grip. That enabled Seagren to hold the pole higher and sprint faster on his takeoff. With the combination of his new pole...