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...Nevada-in which an Air Force Blue train highballed cross-country carrying a deadly load; see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, On the Track...
...important train in the nation. Instead of cash-paying passengers or revenue freight, it carried 45 hand-picked officers and men of the Strategic Air Command and enough communications gear to put them in instant and constant contact with SAC bases around the world. Ranging from the deserts of Nevada to the plains of Wyoming and the mountain country of Montana, they shook down the train that in three years will be operating over 100,000 miles of U.S. rails with the Air Force's second-generation, solid-fuel, 6,300-mile Minuteman missiles and launchers. Train-borne...
...District of Columbia in presidential elections. The amendment now must be approved by three-fourths (38) of the states within seven years. The prospective 23rd Amendment would give the district three votes in the Electoral College-the number held by "the least populous states" (Alaska, Vermont, Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming and Hawaii). ¶ The House, under the hard eye of swarming lobbyists, launched a 7.5%, across-the-board pay hike for 1,600,000 civil service and postal employees. Cost: $746 million. Headed for a sure veto by Ike, the election-year offering passed by a lopsided 377-40, swept through...
...face that is unlined and a handclasp that can crumple knuckles. Square and solid, he still can carry a 120-lb pack by the hour with his bent-knee shuffle. And he still knows more than any other man alive about the wilds and wonders of the Sierra Nevada, the giant wall of granite that links Nevada and California with some of the most rugged peaks on the continent...
Barnstorming through Nevada last February, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy dropped word at a press conference that it would sure be fine to have a Western Governor as a running mate. Nevada's Governor Grant Sawyer soon got the word. Sawyer's friends mentally crossed off those Westerners who plainly had no chance-California's Pat Brown (like Kennedy, a Roman Catholic), Washington's Albert Rosellini (Catholic), Oregon's Mark Hatfield (Republican)-and came to the logical conclusion that Kennedy certainly must have been talking about Grant Sawyer. As the Sawyer pride swelled...