Debating Nevada Industry Growth and the DED
The Nevada gubernatorial race features a clash over the Department of Economic Development and its role in attracting new industry. Critics question the reliability of Lehman backed statistics while noting Henderson gains and mining’s decline. the piece urges scrutiny of credits to the DED and asks what actually drew new firms to Nevada.
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State Department of Economic Development
Nevada
Ofice
Jack Lehman
Grant Sawyer
Lehman
Sawyer
Theerson
Washington
Atomic “Nerey Commission
Ded Hether
Board of Education
San Fran
Air travel farce sparks airline talk in Buchwald piece
Art Buchwald sketches a risqué in-flight skit with stewardesses and pilots trading lines over coffee and regulations. The spoof riffs on cockpit bravado and passenger scrutiny while venting on aviation behavior and press attention.
Ole Miss crisis reshapes 1958 political contest
Washington reports Mississippi arresting attention as James Meredith enters Mississippi State University under guard. San Francisco desegregation debate and Texas governor race add to national political stakes for Kennedy Johnson and Nixon. Cox challenges Connally, aiming to tilt party control.
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Ole Miss
San Francisco
Texas
James Meredith
Mississippi State University
U.S
Department of Justice
Mississippi
John Connally
Jack Cox
Boulder City debates water needs for new golf course plan
Citizens warn against diverting scarce water from domestic use to a proposed city owned golf course on Golf Association land. They note limited water intake from the Bureau of Reclamation and insufficient storage, arguing a water bond is needed for broader needs before any recreation project.
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Boulder City
Associaton
Golf Association
Zens
Thames
Cit
Bureau of Reclamation
Sanier Development
Thomas Enterprises
Mob Eyes West as London Grows Gambling Front
Victor Riesel reports the mob considers expanding into legitimate West Coast ventures while the FBI expands Organized Crime desks and IRS anti racketeering units. Chicago figures Giancana and Humphreys loom as power brokers. London hosts new legal gambling with slot machines near Buckingham Palace. The federal crackdown intensifies under Bil Hundley as 1800 mob figures are regularly watched and thousands of reports move to the DOJ.
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San Francisco
Golden West
Hoods
FBI
Internal Revenue Service
New York City
Chicago
London
Old Britain
Sam Giancana
Bob Kennedy
Giacana
Chicago Area
Giancana
Murray
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Tony Accarco
Faw
Buckingham Palace
Justice Dept
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Cleveland
Underworld
New York
Offen“Ve
Bil Hundley
Iador
Tne
PBI
Special Justice Dept
J. Edgar Hoover
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Dept. of Justice
Congress
Kennedy
Mobs Move West After East Racketeering Crackdown
The attorney general reports indictments against 95 individuals with 11 convictions. New York racketeers who used phony unions to extort businessmen have been convicted. Local authorities map a wider effort as mobs in gambling narcotics and prostitution seek new ventures across the country.
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New York
The World Series Blues and a Husband’s Sport Obsession
A New York newspaper piece argues that during World Series time men retreat into sports hero worship while wives endure silence and chores. It portrays sports as a bonding language for men, a cushion for pride, and a vice to tolerate if the right team wins.
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Col. Gaitskell
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Eisenhower
Little Rock, Ark
Cisco
Commodore Stockton
Chinatown
North Beach
Galileo High
Japan
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Theodore Roosevelt
Edward G Brown
Richard M. Nixon
Connally
Johnson
Don Yarborough
Cox
Senate
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Victor Riesel
Manhattan
Interlands
Dr. Brothers
North American Newspaper Alliance
Chubby
Mantle
Walter Mitty
Derring
Bad Guy
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