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...reactor was a Kiwi, an obsolete experimental nuclear rocket engine built at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and used only for brief tests. It was set on an expendable railroad car on Nevada's desolate Jackass Flats and surrounded with a motley array of test objects-nuclear fuels, explosives, radiation detectors, air samplers. A stout steel net was hung to catch any flying debris, and the scientists retired to the control building two miles from the condemned power plant to wait for a northeast wind that would carry any radioactive fallout away from Nevada's inhabited areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Energy: Destruction on Jackass Flats | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

From the tropical seas came a wild and brutal storm -or rather a series of storms following vengefully one upon the other -to rain destruction and tragedy upon a vast area encompassing most of Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: An Avalanche of Rain | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...five years, Bonanza stars Lome Greene as a late 19th century Nevada rancher who talks softly and with psychiatric insight while combating, say, a half-breed horse thief, who was the heavy in this week's show. The dialogue uses pithy aphorisms ("When you are only half of something, you are really half of nothing"), which eventually works its way toward a modern message: "Never feel guilty about having warm human feelings toward anyone." The episodes are surprisefully plotted and seek variety in the bizarre: next week a knight in armor rides out the purple sage and rams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Year of the Photo Finish | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE 1964 ELECTION: OFFICIAL RETURNS | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...Nevada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State-by-State Results: President, Senator, Governor | 11/4/1964 | See Source »

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