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Twenty members of a local union walked into the executive offices at MIT yesterday morning protesting the university's connection with 300 striking workers at a nuclear missile test site in Las Vegas, Nevada...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: Union Members Protest MIT Connection to Site | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

...parent corporation of Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECO), which is the principal contractor at the Nevada nuclear test site...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: Union Members Protest MIT Connection to Site | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

...spokesman for EG&G's Nevada subsidiary denied that either MIT or the parent company were involved in the labor dispute. "EG&G is not involved with this strike, it is entirely REECO's affair, we are dealing with this completely ourselves," said Steve Leon, public information officer for REECO...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: Union Members Protest MIT Connection to Site | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

DAWN is rolling in like vicious thunder and so are we, floating at speed across the Nevada wastes with a half forgotten sense of purpose burning in our empty stomachs like the remnants of the whisky we had for breakfast--"Pills, pills," one of the Ginsburgs is yelling through the roar of the wind, and he's got a fistful of them, twisting and dancing in the backseat of the Thunderbird convertible, tears of madness streaming down his cheeks and down onto his black pinstripe suit--the law professor, I think, the other Ginsburg--or is it Ginsberg?--Ginsbirg?--homonymous...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

Built in the 1960s, the A-7 Corsair fighter-bomber has been outmoded by more advanced planes such as the F-16. At Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, where a squadron of A-7s is located, pilots say the plane is a "dead stick without power" -- meaning that without engine thrust, the jet cannot easily be guided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indianapolis: Disaster on a Dead Stick | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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