Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Aldous Leonard Huxley, 61, British-born short-story writer, essayist and novelist (Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan); and Laura Archera, 40, Italian concert violinist; he for the second time; in Yuma, Arizona's Drive-In Wedding Chapel...
...Upper Basin of the Colorado River is 110,000 square miles of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, all thirsting for water to develop their rich mineral resources and irrigate their potentially fine farmlands (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). For 50 years basin planners have talked about a vast power and reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National...
...done. The day's most offbeat headline (over a huge picture of a grinning Ike): the New York Daily News's FORE! ! The most original comment ran on the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's editorial page. It was an uncaptioned photograph taken months ago at a prankish Arizona reception and blown up big. The picture showed Adlai Stevenson with a hangman's noose around his neck...
...Gore (probable chairman), Massachusetts' John Kennedy, Arkansas' John McClellan, New Mexico's Clinton Anderson. Minority Leader Bill Knowland readily agreed to the Johnson plan. For the Republicans Knowland named New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Minnesota's Ed Thye, Connecticut's William Purtell and Arizona's Barry Goldwater. The Senate approved the select committee investigation by a vote of 79-1 (North Dakota's maverick Republican Bill Langer) and authorized $350,000 for the job. Said Johnson: "I believe that the members selected for the committee will do their jobs in their...
...velvet equatorial sky when military boots first began to scrape along the streets. Tough little soldiers in suntans deployed briskly. In less than an hour, without firing a shot, they occupied the city's radio stations, telegraph office, and the big, grey prefectura building, Capitol of the jungled, Arizona-size department of Loreto...