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...wrestlers, however, have Brazil's claim to normalcy. Clark Freeman, known as "The Nevada Skuzz-bomb" is a young man breaking into the West Coast conference--if man is the proper word. A victim of the aftereffects of and atomic blast at Nevada, New Mexico, Freeman's metabolism has been radically changed. He appears to the unaided eye to be composed of loose shale and flies, and is surrounded by a constant hissing noise. He is having trouble rising on the list of contenders because many of the contenders who have higher ranking than him are afraid...
...moment, several primaries in May look promising for Reagan-if he stays in the race that long. Among them: Texas (May 1), where he is expected to win at least half the 100 delegates at stake, Louisiana (May 1), West Virginia (May 11) and Kentucky, Tennessee, Nevada, Idaho and Oregon (all May 25). He hopes a chain of strong showings in these states will help him win all of California's 167 delegates on June...
...February 1968, when Lloyd Charles Powell was busted for vagrancy in Nevada, the arresting officer patted him down and found a gun that had been used in a liquor-store shooting the day before in San Bernardino, Calif. Powell, now 29, was convicted of the killing. In August 1970, police in Omaha were angrily investigating the bombing murder of a fellow officer; though they had little to go on, they got a search warrant from a local magistrate, went through the house of David Rice, a member of a Black Panther group, and found 14 Ibs. of dynamite and other...
...exactly prohibitive, but the limit may prove a harrowing restraint to the ample egos in the upper chamber. Just before the new rules were approved, Nevada's Howard Cannon-who happens to be chairman of the committee-had sent out a newsletter with nine references to himself on the first page, six on the second. His latest two-page newsletter, however, is a model of restraint: it contains a total of only five such references...
...areas. Any candidate winning a plurality of votes in a district will get all of the delegates from that locality. Each such election is in effect a mini-primary-and each candidate faces the delicate decision of whether or not to enter. A few states, including California, Michigan and Nevada, require a candidate to win only 10% or 5% of the vote, instead of 15%, in order to gain a share of the delegates...