Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Woodin (grandson of William H. Woodin, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Secretary of the Treasury) is assistant director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Trailside Museum. His purpose: to explore the intimate lives of all Southwestern reptiles, a subject not well known. Since reptiles are "coldblooded" (i.e., have no built-in thermostats as mammals do), they must adjust their activities to the temperature around them. In cold weather they are sluggish, and if they stay out too long in Arizona's searing sun, they die of heat prostration. So Woodin believes that an important step toward understanding...
There is plenty left to do; Arizona has some 50 kinds of lizards and 70 kinds of snakes. But the Gila monster remains his favorite, partly because so little is known about it. Hardly anyone, for instance, has ever seen a Gila monster egg or a baby Gila monster. Woodin hopes that his studies of the monster's habits will lead him to the secret nests where the monsters are hatched...
...convert and missionary (TIME, Nov. 17), paid Hawaii a return visit last week. "This time," he told reporters, "I come not with orders from Tokyo but from a higher command: God." When he spoke of a wish to lay a wreath on the bombed-out hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona, which still holds the bodies of 1,092 U.S. Navymen below decks, the Honolulu Advertiser editorialized: "Hawaii will listen with interest to what Captain Fuchida has to say, but Hawaii believes that his chief mission as a Christian now lies in Japan...
...Paso Natural Gas Co., which supplies the Southwest and California with much of its gas, last week won approval from the Federal Power Commission to build a $175 million, 1,056-mile natural gas pipeline. It will stretch from Pembrook, Texas through New Mexico and Arizona to California. When completed in 1954, it will deliver to customers in those areas an additional 400 million cu. ft. of gas daily...
...International) is one of those modestly budgeted, neatly tooled little thrillers that Hollywood turns out without fanfare from time to time. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, it is a crisp combination of shocker and sociological comment. It tells of a Martian space ship that lands in the Arizona desert and of the chaos the visitors from outer space cause before they depart...