Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...Sabre jet "broke 700" last week: i.e., established a new official speed record of 715.7 m.p.h.* The previous official record, also held by a Sabre jet, was 699.9 m.p.h. To turn the trick, Lieut. Colonel William Barnes, 32, flew his Sabre jet at the most favorable spot: the hot desert that surrounds the Salton Sea in Southern California. A Sabre jet is built to fly at mach .91, i.e., 91% of the speed of sound. Above this speed, it runs into a sharp increase of air resistance that is called "compressibility drag rise." Since sound moves faster at high temperature...
...whereupon Taylor slaps Gardner, which seems bad manners even in frontier Texas. Follow some shooting, riding, burning, and some pallid attempts by the scriptwriters to make the whole affair into a kind of road-company Shane. When at last the end arrives, slow as an old mule across the desert, it brings the funniest movie scene in years: Taylor and Quinn shooting each other dead and dropping to the barroom floor simultaneously, like well-rehearsed ballet dancers. Ride, Vaquero! has some exciting stretches, but Anthony Quinn as the bandit provides the only glimpses of distinction; at moments...
...Village Level. Lawyer Alami has spent a lifetime tilting at windmills for his people. After World War II he doggedly preached his doctrine of reclamation and education while most Arabs could think only of their quarrels with the Zionists. He irrigated thousands of acres of desert land that others had thought hopeless, gave jobs to hundreds of refugees. Then, 15 months ago, he turned to the problem of the bedraggled bands of boys left homeless by the Palestine war. In Jerusalem he saw hundreds of them, skulking about the bazaars, living in back alleys, begging or stealing a few piasters...
...months Stirton has been poking around in the dry northeastern corner of South Australia, in a place where fossil bones had been reported. Last week, back in Adelaide, he told about a major find: the skeletons of 500 to 1,000 diprotodons, entombed just beneath the desert surface. He brought back one skeleton, the first ever found complete, and parts of two others...