Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EGYPTIAN OIL HUNT has been ended by U.S. combine of Continental Oil, Ohio Oil, Cities Service and Richfield Oil, who spent 4½ years, $30 million trying to find oil in western desert, found only dry holes...
...Edwards A.F.B. on the Mojave Desert, the X-15 will be introduced to air and space by easy stages. First it will probably be dropped unpowered to see how it lands. During February 1959 North American's Test Pilot Scott Crossfield will make the first powered flights, using low-powered rocket engines. Then will come tryout flights with the 50,000-lb. engine. At some point in this feeling-out process, the X-15 will be turned over to the Air Force. Then Captain Robert A. White, 34, who became the Air Force's choice as test pilot...
...theologian" (among the schools he attended: the University of Texas, Union Theological Seminary, Edinburgh's New College), is nevertheless a direct and positive talker, more popular in class than in the pulpit. He has strong ideas about everything. Examples: Missions: "A Gothic cathedral would look strange on a desert, and one can be a Christian without being a westerner. A lot has been said about demythologizing Christianity; well, in missionary work it needs to be deculturized...
Much of this dislike stemmed from a sense of inferiority and his agonizing self-consciousness. As a result he buried himself deeply in his work and in his reading. Often in the letters of the period he would write of a profound loneliness: "Even the solitude of a desert is companionship when compared to the loneliness of a city. The modern hermit carries all within him--his retreat is the populous wilderness of this world...
Robustious Breed. Winner he was, six years ago, the beneficiary of a name and a spirit which has burned over his chunk of Southwest desert even before it became the Arizona territory. In the 1860s Big Mike Goldwater, Barry's grandfather, packed in behind a mule to found the mercantile business which now does $6,000,000 a year in five Goldwater department stores, spawned a robustious breed whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall...