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...consumed by Los Angeles, and this could be used in Arizona. Part of it might be diverted from a Colorado tributary, the San Juan, and turned into the Rio Grande watershed for desperately water-short New Mexico. It might be exported to eastern Colorado, or to the Bonneville Basin around Great Salt Lake, where the growing industries of Utah are screaming for water. Thus the abundant flow of the Klamath could bring new life to dry lands more than 1,000 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Endless Frontier | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Sharkey's Southern Comfort (Sharkey Bonano; Capitol; 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). One of New Orleans' favorite jazz combos helps prove, with spirited renditions of Temptation Rag, Basin Street Blues and four others, that the Dixieland tradition still flourishes in its old home town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Four skippers combined Sunday to cop the Boston Dinghy Club Cup from an M.I.T. team which was considered practically invincible in its own Basin. The coup de grace was a canny port tack by Frank Scully at the start of the final race. The move won the race for Harvard and overcome M.I.T.'s three point lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Sink M.I.T. to Take Dinghy Club Cup | 5/22/1951 | See Source »

...desert Tularosa Basin in southern New Mexico is a valley without a river. Fierce winds sweep across it, and dust devils whirl in the sun. On most days the valley is quiet, with only a scattered coming & going of military vehicles from White Sands Proving Ground (Army Ordnance) or Holloman Air Force Base. But sometimes a screaming roar echoes among the mountains, and a monstrous bird with a tail of flame flies straight into the sky. Or a slender, dartlike object slips out of the belly of a B-29 and streaks over the horizon at several times the speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds of Mars | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Without upping its stroke, Winthrop's crew scored the biggest upset so far in the House sports season yesterday, by edging over the finish line in the Charles Basin a bare three feet in front of heavily favored Eliot. This is the first time the Elephants have lost the event since...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Winthrop Upsets Eliot by 3 Feet In Crew Race; Wins Agassiz Cup | 5/17/1951 | See Source »

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