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...University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with a murky reputation going back years, is in the NCAA basketball semi-finals. Poor high school kids are offered cars, money and who knows what to attend Got-To-Win-The-Championship U. Of course the athletes deserve all they can get for they officially get so very little in return for their tireless efforts, but where does it leave them if they don't learn anything and they don't make the pros. But we all know it's rotten and there's nothing we can do to change it, right? The championship...
NCAA hoop has picked up the slack a bit, now that nobody has any idea of who the best team in the nation really is. San Francisco had its cover blown two weeks in a row when Notre Dame and Nevada-Las Vegas proved that the Dons' schedule is about as formidable as Beaver Country...
Even in Las Vegas, a town not noted for softies, Al Bramlet, 59, stood out as mean. The high-living, free-spending boss of Local 226 of the Culinary Workers Union, which represents 22,000 employees in Nevada's casino hotels and restaurants, Bramlet made enemies as effortlessly as gamblers throw dice. Following a strike last March, his own rank and file accused him of selling out to employers with sweetheart contracts. Other union chiefs despised him as a double-crosser. Establishments that resisted his organizers had fire-bomb problems. But like Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Bramlet...
Credit counselors invariably bewail the willingness of consumers to take the first time-payment deal they are offered -and with good reason. To test the benefits of shopping around, TIME staffers in New England, the Midwest and the California-Nevada area asked various lenders what terms they would.offer to a salesman who earned $20,000 a year and wanted to borrow $2,000 to take his wife and two children on a vacation. The salesman was assumed to be making mortgage payments on a $40,000 house, and to be paying $110 a month on an auto loan...
...took a factory job, then moved the family to upstate New York -Bird studied at Long Island University, then went on to graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. After earning her law degree at Berkeley in 1965, she became the first woman to clerk on the Nevada Supreme Court, where Justice David Zenoff pronounced her "intellectually marvelous." Bird, who has never been married, then became the first female public defender in Santa Clara County, Calif., and also taught litigation and consumer law from 1972 to 1974 at Stanford...