Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admiring herd, disconcerting the urbane and unhorsing the sophisticated by sheer force of his awkward ardor. He pokes an oil princeling in the snoot, almost drowns the handsome son of the grand vizier. In a final melodramatic bid for Shala's heart. he parachutes into the Sahara Desert to engage a rival in mortal combat. Caught up in his exuberant campaign, he scarcely notices that his love has run off to another...
...outfit called the National Hell's Canyon Association, Inc. blossomed and bristled like a desert cactus last year, soon after the Federal Power Commission turned down an eight-year-old proposal that the Government build a single high dam in Idaho's Hell's Canyon, instead licensed a private utility to build three small dams in the area (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955). Turning furiously to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the association charged that the FPC action amounted to "administrative lawlessness" and de manded that the court order the license revoked. Chief argument: under...
...that they are fighting for. The 2gth, undisputed preserve of G.O.P. Congressman John Phillips until he announced his retirement last November, spreads across 11,000 violently contrasting square miles. It includes the lush irrigated ranches (cotton, fancy vegetables, dates) of the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys and Marslike desert mountains and flats. It in cludes the onetime citrus wonderland of Riverside County, now being turned into a thriving business area by the overflow of Los Angeles-bound migrants...
...experimental rocket plane, will probably get a rocket boost at the box office from recent headlines. In July the X-2 set a speed record (1,900 m.p.h.) for manned aircraft. Last month it set the altitude record: 126,000 ft. above sea level. Then it crashed in the desert...
High above the California desert, a needle-nosed aircraft dropped from the belly of a B50 mother ship, kicked in its rocket engines and flashed up to 126,000 ft., higher than man had ever flown before. The plane was Bell Aircraft Co.'s X-2 research plane (see SCIENCE), and the news of its record-breaking flight was a farewell accolade to the man who built it. At 62, Bell President Lawrence Dale Bell, for 45 years a pioneering airman, announced that he was moving over to board chairman, leaving the operation of the company to his second...