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...this comedy Tony has a role in which he can Cary on to his heart's content : he plays a man who thinks he can do without a woman. Do what? Do business, for one thing, and as the manager of a Nevada casino, he has plenty of business to do. One day, temptation (Suzanne Pleshette) comes slithering into his Eveless Eden. He resists. But after temptation comes responsibility (Claire Wilcox). He can't resist. How could any redblooded, blue-eyed, squarejawed, caramel-centered American male resist a darling little five-year-old girl abandoned by her heartless...
...Spring performance that rates a cherished page in our book was Harvard's upset conquest of the National Elephant Racing crown over tough Nevada University and Orange County State College. An impassioned rally on the steps of Widener sparked the team to victory. Harvard's elephant, Sonita, has recently finished filming a movie with Bobby Darin and is currently resting up for the coming racing season...
...week Physicist Edward Teller, the dour genius who led the U.S. in its race to develop the H-bomb ahead of the Russians, reported on the progress of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare, exploring peaceful applications of nuclear explosions. He told of a Plowshare test in Nevada last summer in which a thermonuclear device with a power of 100 kilotons (equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT) was exploded underground, creating in a few seconds a crater 1,200 ft. wide and 320 ft. deep. Such explosions, he said, could be used to make harbors and canals...
...venerable fellow Republican Henry Dworshak, won a full term by defeating Gracie Pfost, a five-term Congresswoman and the Queen Bee of Idaho politics. But Idaho eyes were really centered on the campaign for Governor, in which Democrat Vernon K. Smith came out for legalized gambling à la Nevada. Incumbent Republican Robert E. Smylie hollered no so loudly that the issue buried all others. Smylie, without really trying, was elected to a third term...
...states have such laws: Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee are without them. In New York, for example, adultery is punishable by a six-month jail term and/or a $250 fine. But the laws are rarely invoked. In 1948, a year chosen for study, only 267 arrests were made in the whole country and of these, 242 were in Boston...