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Wide, Not Strong. Humphrey, meanwhile, has been making progress on two fronts. Recently he has collected a bag of delegates in state conventions and caucuses in Maryland, Delaware, Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska and Maine. Humphrey has also been doing well against Kennedy in public-opinion polls, outdistancing him by nine points in the Gallup sampling of Democrats reported last week. In April, Kennedy led by four. Humphrey has labor backing and strong support from businessmen, who by and large still distrust Bobby. He has even been gaining among younger voters?ostensibly Kennedy's strongest bloc. The May survey, however...
...below the Nevada desert last week, the AEC tested a one-megaton hydrogen device, the largest ever exploded in the U.S. Despite earlier protests from scientists, labor leaders and Howard Hughes, who had feared earthquakes, major property damage and vented radiation, the blast produced only a harmless ground shock and a rock-filled underground cavity similar to that created by the AEC's Project Gas-buggy (TIME...
...Comstock Lode. New find? No. Old sharpie. Word was out that Mystery Zillionaire Howard Hughes, 62, had just paid $225,000 for a 480-acre claim in the area, and one of Hughes's advisers speculated that perhaps $12 billion in gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed deals for Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel ($30.7 million) and Silver Slipper Saloon ($5,400,000) and their gambling casinos, giving...
...strike has shut down some 60 facilities in 23 states and heavily damaged the economies of Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. It has also added at least $200 million to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit, as copper users have been forced to turn to foreign suppliers, who now charge 700 a Ib. Despite union strike benefits, federal food stamps and county welfare payments, the strikers are hurting too. "Financially, I'm busted," said Machinist Wilbur E. Moses of Anaconda, Mont., last week. "But there ain't much we can do about...
...because rail routes are longer, highways fewer and profits greater, one small railroad is being assiduously courted. Both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe have attempted to acquire the Western Pacific, if only because its profits are steady and its route includes the easiest pass through the Sierra Nevada. So far, Western President M. M. Christy has turned down all offers...