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...Democratic preserve, a group of 30 militant conservatives of both parties met in September to celebrate a crucial victory for which they claimed substantial credit. Paul Weyrich, director of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, awarded gleaming brass plaques to Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Richard Viguerie, the movement's genius of the direct-mail campaign. Their combined efforts, exulted Weyrich, had defeated Jimmy Carter's bills for election-day registration and the public financing of senatorial elections, which would have bolstered the Democratic vote. The plaques were inscribed with the tribute...
During this period, Hughes was the largest private employer in Nevada and provided the cover for the CIA'S Glomar Explorer operation. The executives of Summa Corp.-which was solely owned by Hughes and still oversees his vast real estate, gambling and hotel interests and airline-pretended that the old man was alert and bossing the company from behind the scenes. Actually, he was leading a totally disoriented life. Hughes' daily log, which is expected to be introduced as evidence in pending court actions, recounts that he spent most of his waking hours watching thriller movies, going...
...specialist in psychosomatic medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School, Lynch argues that social isolation brings emotional and then physical deterioration. Boston Irishmen, he notes, have a far higher coronary death rate than their brothers left behind in the more closely knit culture of the old sod. Nevada, a freewheeling singles-oriented state, has a higher rate of death from heart disease than neighboring Utah, with its Mormon tradition of close family ties. One study showed that in Roseto, an Italian American community in Pennsylvania, there were only one-third as many heart attacks as in culturally diversified surrounding...
More important, one in six wildcat wells (wells drilled where there has been no previous exploration) has been striking oil or gas-a very high success rate. "We are finding big gas fields in Oklahoma, western Wyoming and even Nevada, of all places!" says Marvin Davis. head of Denver's Davis Oil Co a big independent driller. "There is so much baloney coming out of Washington that we are running...
Recent Push. Under development since 1959 and first tested underground in Nevada in 1963, the neutron bomb received its most recent push in 1975 from then Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. He concluded that the threat to use NATO's tactical nukes was losing its credibility and therefore its deterrent power. Schlesinger reasoned that neu tron bombs would constitute a credible deterrent. President Ford approved production funds for two new warheads in the fiscal 1978 budget that is now making its way through Congress. The cost is classified but is estimated to be between $10 million and $20 million...