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Relations between Los Angeles and Las Vegas are still recovering from a flap over a speech by Las Vegas Civil Defense Leader J. Carlton Adair, who proposed a 5,000-man militia against the possibility of wartime refugees from California pouring into Nevada "like a swarm of locusts." And Civil Defense Coordinator Keith Dwyer of California's Riverside County (pop. 306,191) last week told a group of officials and reserve policemen in the town of Beaumont that as many as 150,000 refugees from Los Angeles might stream into Beaumont if there were an enemy attack, and that...
...more than singers; they are entrepreneurs. Norman, most notably, is an insurance agent and securities salesman, also owns a carpet and drapery shop, and with five offices and a sales force of 40 on his payroll, is far and away the biggest real estate operator in the state of Nevada...
Cattle and sheep graze over the vast domain of the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas, which saw its last nuclear explosion in 1958 when the U.S. and Russia informally agreed to stop testing. But the specter of the bomb still hangs over the landscape: the man who cares for the cattle rides the range with a radiation counter clipped to his shirt pocket. Last week, with resumption of testing still in the balance, the atomic cowpoke had plenty of company. Never abandoned by the AEC, the test site has blossomed with activity...
Poor Adjustment. When he retired in 1928, Cobb's financial future was assured: he. had invested much of his salary (up to $60,000 a year) in blue-ribbon stocks -among them Coca-Cola and General Motors. But he adjusted poorly to retirement, restlessly moved from California to Nevada and then back to his native Georgia. "You cannot eat baseball and sleep baseball and study baseball year after year and then just stop like that," he once explained. "It's in the bloodstream. You crave it. You can't get along without...
Jesuit Zimmers sold his idea to enough bishops and pastors in California, Arizona and Nevada to finance the organization last year of the Institute of Lay Theology at the Jesuit-founded University of San Francisco (enrollment: 4,117). Here, for the past ten months, a faculty of 27 professors has been teaching the fine points...