Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average family's ten or eleven children, only four or five survive infancy. Life centers around the mud-brick cook hut where feeble fires of roots, sticks and llama dung struggle in the thin air. Indians who make it through childhood live to an average age of 32-without taking a bath, without taking a pill, without sleeping on a real bed. Most are solemn and docile, apparently cowed by their environment, except when there is an excuse for a fiesta and they can gulp caña (a potent, sugar-based liquor). Then, a missionary says, "a young...
...site of the proposed station was Cook Flat, a bowl-shaped valley in the Davis Mountains of west Texas. This location is roughly 200 miles from the nearest large city, El Paso, and thus relatively free from television and radio broadcasts which might blot out solar signals. Although some man-made radiation does reach Cook Flat, the hills which rise 1500 feet above the valley's floor reduce this interference by a factor of over 100. Eight miles from Cook Flat is the town of Fort Davis (population 600), where the Harvard station has set up offices and dark-rooms...
...Harvard Radio Astronomy Station was originally conceived strictly as a solar research project, but it is now branching out to study some of the other radio sources. A new $1,000,000 instrument, financed by the Air Force, now rises over 100 feet above the rocky soil of Cook Flat, dwarfing the solar equipment...
...past, Cook added, the bank has always "held out for a type of person who would be a good representative of his race in this type of job." "We have always felt," Cook said, "that we did not want to just hire someone simply because he was a Negro...
...recent hiring was not the result of any pressure on the part of CORE, Cook said. It was done on the bank's initiative, he explained, because the company has "recognized the reality of the fact they won't get the ideal Negro...