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...HONOR TO GREAT LOWELLS (TIME, JAN. 18) BUT PLANET PLUTO DISCOVERED BY FARM BOY CLYDE TOMBAUGH AT LOWELL OBSERVATORY, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ...
...newest, weirdest theories in science-the existence of contraterrene or "reverse matter"-was argued pro & con last week when the Society for Research on Meteorites met at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. While the atoms of normal matter are made up of negatively charged electrons surrounding a positively charged nucleus of protons and neutrons, in contraterrene matter the charges are assumed to be reversed: the electrons are positive (positrons), the nucleus negative...
When you mentioned Arizona's Senator Ashurst orating to the cacti in the Sept. 23 issue of TIME, it prompted us to inform you that Flagstaff, the honorable Senator's home town, has no cacti, being 7,000 feet elevation and in the heart of the largest pine forest in the world. Cacti such as the Senator would lecture to, as you state, do not grow at such an elevation. Flagstaff has neither cacti nor reptiles as one naturally expects in Arizona...
...Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce Flagstaff, Ariz...
...father and mother (who had borne Henry in 1874 in a covered wagon near Winnemucca, Nev.) had trekked to Flagstaff, Ariz., where the elder Ashurst went into the cattle business. Summers, young Henry punched cows, more often tethered his horse and strode around the lonely Arizona landscape, exhorting the cacti and the boulders, making speeches to the mountains, like Demosthenes on the beach. He was practicing for his chosen career. He studied law, at the age of 21 got himself elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. He served later in the Territorial Senate. In 1912, Arizona was admitted to Statehood...