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Leet challenged the March 4 report of Project Vela, a recent Defense Department research program of detection experiments in Nevada. The report was appproved by the Atomic Energy Commission and the State Department...
Down Home. When she arrived in Nevada, Drackert pronounced her "tired and upset," and slammed shut the doors to his ranch, even to new paying guests. Mrs. Rockefeller left the grounds only for horseback rides, long, solitary hikes, and daily walks to the Verdi post office a mile away. The few Nevadans who did meet her were impressed by her easy manner. "Call me Mary," she said, hinting that she dislikes being called "Mrs. Rockefeller" or, worse...
...daily ritual is the ride, and Nevada friends say that she is a "fantastic" horseback rider despite her English saddle. She is also "trail boss." "If it's snowing and she wants to ride, you ride," a friend says. She resents help with her mount, and when the ride is over each day, she rubs down her own horse...
...week stay will end this Thursday. Mary Rockefeller will then be eligible for her divorce in any Nevada court; her lawyer refuses to say when or where it will be. If all goes according to the well-rehearsed schedule of Nevada divorces, her marriage of 31 years will be ended with simple answers to half a dozen questions. It shouldn't take ten minutes...
...tests should be presented to the world. Advance elements of a joint nuclear task force have already sailed for the Pacific testing sites at Johnston. Christmas and Jarvis Islands. But Salinger's group will probably recommend that the first atmospheric tests take place on the flats of Nevada, where the U.S. can de-emphasize the effects of fallout by stressing proximity to its own people...