Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, our photographers followed Josephy's script and his well-blazed trail through the Southwest and brought back the transparencies for Art Director Michael J. Phillips to lay out for this week's color spread on the American Desert...
...high wire fences of Camp Elliott, Calif, take in 40 square miles of desert scrublands northeast of San Diego, and keep in 885 grey-uniformed men who have been sentenced for a set term in the U.S. Naval Retraining Command-the Navy's equivalent of a reformatory. Be havior problems one and all, the men have gone AWOL, committed thefts or sexual offenses, assaulted superiors or somehow violated one of the hundreds of "Rocks and Shoals" (Navy Regulations). In their state of military purgatory they run through a routine of work details, formations, exercise and orientation lectures. When their...
...Hollywood, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies revealed that she has bought the famed Desert Inn in Palm Springs, Calif, for $2,000,000, expects to spend a lot more for renovations and expansions: "I plan to develop it into a miniature Rockefeller Center...
...ordinary air traveler winging across the U.S. Southwest, the great American desert still seems an arid and forbidding waste of sand, dry lake beds and jagged rock mountains. But to the observant, a careful look reveals surprising signs of a new civilization rising among the ocotillos and greasewood. Thin asphalt ribbons stretch across the sand, linking black and white dots of clustered homes, blue bands of irrigation canals and rectangles of bright green new farms. From California's southern coastal ranges inland 375 miles to the central Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, the searing desert, long a shunned...
...Daoud's invitation, shoals of Russians arrived in Kabul with new offers of economic aid. Their plans contrasted with the U.S.'s aid program, which, at Afghan request, has been concentrated on building remote dams in the southern desert...