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...fortunate was Clifford Jones, former Nevada lieutenant governor (1947-54) and now a big gambling casino operator in Las Vegas and the Caribbean. Jones was charged with perjury for denying that he had paid Baker, through Bromley, $10,000 for services rendered...
...partly accomplished by bussing Negroes to junior high and high school. He once strode into a TV studio to interrupt an education speech by Governor Grant Sawyer, accused .him of "irresponsible leadership" in bucking most educational problems to the rural-dominated legislature. When an official of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called Newcomer's school budget phony, Newcomer said the man "either can't read, or he's stupid, or he's dishonest...
21/2 Acres of Carpet. Today Newcomer's district has an annual budget of $29.2 million, almost triple that of four years ago and more money than is spent by any other public agency in Nevada. In the same period, enrollment has risen to 58,000, which is 52% of the whole state's pupils, yet double sessions have been eliminated. Teacher sal aries have risen 25% and teacher turn over has been cut to 14% . Newcomer's own salary is $26,500-making him the state's highest-paid official...
...most people in Nevada deeply respect Newcomer's educational philosophy. "There isn't a kid in the world who isn't a genius or a near genius in some things, or a moron in others," he says. The schools, says Newcomer, must "find ways to analyze each child in terms of his uniqueness as a human being...
...other cities-the G.O.P. has an example and an incentive to elaborate less rigid club rules and, indeed, to expand the club. To be sure, some Republicans are deeply offended by the way in which John Lindsay peeled off his party uniform before the battle. Among them was Nevada National Committeeman Melvin Lundberg, who growled, "If you tie a lemon on an orange tree, it's still not an orange." Yet the Democratic Party has never discouraged expedient hybridization-provided, at least, that oranges and lemons continue to hang from the same tree and wear the grower...