Radiation Lab Impacts and Outreach at SWRHL Las Vegas
SWRHL on the University of Nevada campus in Las Vegas serves 20 western states with surveillance research and training in radiation. The facility conducts air water and milk sampling measures to track releases from NTS tests and to assess public exposure. It runs a dairy farm for exposure studies, whole body counting, phantom calibration, and field soil plant work. The laboratory hosts a large public symposium and offers free technical training to dozens of organizations each year.
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Las Vegas
Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory
SWRHL
Mississippi River
University of Nevada
Environmental Health Service
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
U.S
Nevada Test Site
SWAHS
Nevada
Bikini Atoll
NTS
NWRHL
SWRHS
Melvin W. Carter
Jet age brings 24 hour Brunch Tour Across Continents
Las Vegas narrator Paul Price recalls a whirlwind journe y itinerary from Las Vegas to Chicago to Montreal to Scotland and Manchester while aboard BOACs Chicago Manchester inaugural flight. He jokes about unlikely tea with the queen and misadventures of Dorothy and the Erin crew roaming Ireland.
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Manchester
England
Las Vegas
Chicago
Montreal
Scotland
Atlantic
British Overseas Airways Corp
Chicago-Manchester
Merrie Old England
Sons of Erin
Dublin
Buckingham
Across the Atlantic with BOAC and TWA to England
A Nevada tourist recounts a Manchester to Dublin journey via Chicago and Montreal aboard TWA and BOAC. He praises British hospitality, notes two dinners en route, heavy whisky offers, and a heat wave while contrasting American and Empire attitudes. He quotes BOAC press officer Brian Twomey on American goodwill.
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BOAC
United States
Europe
Vegas
TWA
England
Nevada
L.A
Chicago
O'Hare
Montreal
Atlantic
Scotland
Manchester
Lem Banker’s Health Club
The
Riviera
Price
Brian Twomey
Expressway target Date Scheduled For Mid July
The Downtown Expressway from the Downtown Interchange to Las Vegas Boulevard is complete and has a scheduled target date for mid July. Officials say traffic openings and related details will follow as construction winds down.
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Las Vegas Boulevard
Charleston
C. T. Parker
Max Riggs
J. W. Vickrey
Las Vegas Junior High predicts turn of the century
Seventh graders in Mrs. Themelis class at Ed Von Tobel Junior High imagine life in 2000 with space travel, no cigarettes, extinct animals, and students in high tech cubicles. Meanwhile Las Vegas highway projects progress as I-15 upgrades near downtown advance toward opening in the near future. Public works include the Downtown Expressway and North Las Vegas freeways, with overpasses and new signals delayed by strikes but promised mid year.
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Cynthia Themielis
Ed von Tobel
Junior Scholastics
von Tobel
Themelis
University of Nevada
Las Vegas
Leonard Robinson
Mary Sue Gentry
Robinson
Miss Themes
Las Vegas “Strip
Parvin
Riviera Boulevard
Reno Lane
Convention Center Drive
Ets-Hokin and Galvan Electric
Vegas Lads Headed On Boys Nation Trip
Stewart UPI Bradley Georges and Mark Kaner of Valley High School Las Vegas chosen as Nevada delegates to Boys Nation Washington D C in mid July representing the state. Alternatives include Mark Brandenburg Valley High School and Dave Hardy Carson City.
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Vegas
Nevada Boys State
Mark Brandenburg
Valley High School
Dave Hardy
Carson City
Vegas Daze and Nights Reflect Las Vegas Showbiz Memoir
A nostalgic Las Vegas column recalls early Desert Inn nights with Carol Burnett and other stars. It surveys performers from 1958 to the 1960s, notes on Ed Sullivan’s variety show, and vivid anecdotes about Pat Moreno, Flip Wilson, Cathy Hawn, Dean Martin, Juliet Prowse, and Bobby Darin, plus industry chatter on venues and future plans. The piece mixes memoir with entertainment industry trivia from that era.
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Las Vegas
Ed Sullivan
Desert Inn
Sullivan
John Foster Dulles
Carol Burnett
the Palace
Jim Nabors
Chicago
Flip Wilson
Show Biz
Flip
Sahara
San Francisco
Clerow Flip’ Wilson
Cathy Hawn
Dean Martin
The
Riviera
Ray Conniff
Juliet Prowse
Dallas State Fair Music Hall
Cinerama
Nate Jacobson
Kings Castle
Bobby Darin
England
Earl Grant
Los Angeles
Rolls Royce
Lordsburg
N.M
Flamingo
Frederic Apcar
Dunes
Buddy Hackett
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Maureen Reilly
SUN
Paul Price
Here
Ireland
Dorothy
Limerick
Shannon
Dottie
Erin
Emerald Isle
Tom O'Donnell
Russell Hotel
Tommy
Cuul
Vegas Tots
Clark County
Don Pahor
Convention Center
Pahor
Andy
Chelsea Circle
State Highway Department
Jack Parvin
Charleston Boulevard
Bonanza Road
Peter Kiewit Sons
Carey
Lamb
Lake Mead Boulevard
Lake Mead
Frehner Trucking Service
Ralph Peart
T-Bird
Pat Moreno
Artists & Models
Oakland
Pat
Moreno
Buddy
Vic Damone
Joe Parnello
Vic
Joe
Landmark Hotel
West Coast
Gil
Liza Minnelli
Cocoanut Grove
Liza
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