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...past few years, aggressively recruiting coaches have skimmed away the best talent from New York's playgrounds. If one wanted to see the pro prospects turned out by high school powerhouses like DeWitt Clinton, Taft, Boys High, Power Memorial, and Canarsie in action, the best bet was to watch Nevada-Las Vegas or Tennessee on television...
Other farmers want the Federal Government to ease up on land-use controls. This view is not shared by another powerful Western interest group, the environmentalists. Noting that vast areas of the West are owned by the Federal Government-up to 85% of Nevada -Bill Press, director of California's Office of Planning and Research, declared. "There is a need for the Government to get its own house in order: forest, grazing land and desert. As of now, the Feds have no real land-management policy...
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Never has a ski season in the West got off to a more dismal start. Skiing is a $475 million annual industry in the Western snow country of California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, and resort owners from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...
...said ". . . the state's [Nevada] 583,000 residents pay no income, sales or inheritance taxes." You are only two-thirds right. Nevadans have been paying a sales tax since...