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...racers, production vehicles and jerry-rigged "Baja bugs" at insane speeds over camel-backed "whoopdedoos" spend a minimum of $10,000 on their rigs. The cash prizes for most races are about $2,000. In Laughlin, a rest-stop community of 100 residents and three casinos tucked away in Nevada's desolate southern tip, the car with the fastest time...
...frightening decisions to be made. An orphaned girl finds that to achieve her individual goals in today's America she must cease to cling to memories of her father and their harrowing experience of hiding in wartime Holland. A young couple begins a new and isolated life in Nevada, believing that "the only marriages that work [are] those where you say the hell with it, and then move out to Nevada or Alaska, or Brazil," only to discover that they are terrified by their separation from the values of society...
...will be on June 8, last day of the primary campaign). In a majority of the other states, however, organizing has not yet begun. At this early stage, most experts rate Ford ahead in all states but those with large concentrations of conservative voters, notably Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada and Oklahoma. Nationwide, a Gallup poll of 339 Republicans found Ford ahead of Reagan, 58% to 36%. But that poll was taken just before Ford's Cabinet shakeup, and the situation could easily change. Indeed, an NBC telephone poll of 245 Republicans just after the shake-up gave Reagan...
...presidential aide but left after he was frozen out by the jealous H.R. Haldeman. He became a guest lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, then returned to a lucrative Washington law practice. Though the Reagan committee is headed officially by Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, even he admits that Sears is the master planner and director...
...persecution levied on the Basques has vacillated from time to time. The vicious cycle of assassination, execution, and reprisal killings is not likely to be interrupted by American intervention. Despite the constant efforts of Idaho's Secretary of State Pete Cenasurra, and U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada the only two American legislators of Basque origin, little headway can be expected in the battle to convince Congress that the autonomy of the Basque lands is more important than the maintenance of American military bases on Spanish soil. Those who would seem the most likely advocates of intervention, Basque-Americans with...