Word: kirtland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likes the far-ranging operation, is in his element when he is outbound for Labrador in the Hanna Co.'s speedy converted Lockheed patrol bomber. His nonbusiness passion is horses; he is a scientific horse breeder and an excellent horseman. His rambling, two-story country home in Kirtland Hills, just outside Cleveland, is a horsy household dominated by murals, pictures and statues of horses. Above the living-room mantel is a lighted oil painting of George Humphrey on his own Richmond Boy. He spends most of his vacations on his 3,000-acre estate, "Milestone," near Thomasville, Ga.-usually...
...asked, with a wink: "Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure and never amounted to anything?") He revels in the role of head-of-the-family, loves to gather his son and two daughters and his eight grandchildren at Kirtland Hills on Sundays...
...training stable at Charlottesville, Va., and a plantation complete with game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. He rides to the hounds, shows his horses, is a member of the exclusive (50 members in the U.S.) Jockey Club. He is a vestryman of St. Hubert's Episcopal Chapel of Kirtland Hills, Ohio, not far from his estate. He centers most of his social life around his family and his hunting companions...
...tailed B-29 from Kirtland Air Force Base droned overhead. The G.I.s put away their cards. The plane began to circle. Big Brother started ticking off the seconds. The words "Bomb away" came over the loudspeaker...
...dawn one morning last week, three red-tailed 6-293 took off from New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base and began circling over the AEC's atomic proving grounds at Frenchman's Flat. On the desert below, the Army was supposed to have set up infantry positions, emplaced artillery, and deployed tanks. At 7:20, the 6-295 slid into formation and swept over the target. A blinding, dome-shaped flash lit up the sky; the familiar, mushroom-topped cloud shot up to 20,000 feet. Three hours later, a loo-mile-long radioactive cloud...