Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take recent U.S. immunity for granted. Town-dwelling mosquitoes, Aëdes aegypti, which carry the virus, are found in a continuous belt reaching from El Salvador through Mexico and into much of the U.S. Most of the U.S. South (all the territory below a line drawn from Yuma, Ariz, to the northeast corner of New Mexico and across the continent to where Virginia and North Carolina meet the Atlantic) is infested with these mosquitoes. In this area- one-third of the country-the disease could flare up at any time...
CLARK J. WELLS Coolidge, Ariz...
...news from Mars-brief as it was−was good. Astronomer E. C. Slipher, of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., recently returned from South Africa confident that Mars, which often suffers from drought, has had an unusually fruitful year. At any rate, the markings on Mars, which shrink and grow with the changing Martian seasons and are believed to be due to vegetation, are bigger and more intensely colored this year than any Dr. Slipher has seen in his 50 years of Mars-watching...
...Without Honor. In Phoenix, Ariz., Charles Rockwell, chairman of the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee and sparkplug of a campaign against traffic violators and speeders, had his license revoked for eight driving violations, including two for speeding...
Open House. In Douglas, Ariz., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Garcia told police that although their neighbors on four sides had noticed nothing suspicious during the Garcia's six-month absence, their house had been stripped of a bed, cupboards, tables, four chairs, a medicine cabinet, windows, plumbing pipes, faucets, toilet, light bulbs and clothesline...