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Word: kirtland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seconds one night last spring, the blinding flash of a huge meteor lit up the sky over central Mexico. A short time later, a B57 sped to the scene from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Its mission was to collect any debris that might still be adrift after the fireball's searing entry into the earth's atmosphere. For the second time in history, investigators had been alerted quickly enough to seek such dust, which provides invaluable clues to the origin and chemical makeup of meteorites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Hot Line for Passing Events | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...fronted goose, Laysan and Mexican duck, California condor, Florida Everglade kite, Southern bald eagle, masked bobwhite, whooping crane, Yuma and light-footed clapper rails, Eskimo curlew, Puerto Rican parrot, American ivory-billed woodpecker and Northern and Southern red-cock-aded woodpeckers, Laysan and Nihoa finches, Bachman's and Kirtland's warblers, dusky seaside and Cape Sable sparrows, and Hawaii's duck, goose, hawk, stilt, crow, gallinule and coot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Escape from Extinction | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...would like to know where you got the statement "new converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking." This is absurd. The Word of Wisdom, as the Mormons understand it, prohibits any use of tobacco, and is a commandment from God given through Joseph Smith at Kirtland, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...Paso, police, FBI agents and border patrolmen scrambled out of their beds and hurried to International Airport. From Denver, Continental Airlines President Robert Six issued an order: "Stall in any way, as long as possible." Two Air National Guard F-100 fighters whooshed out of Albuquerque's Kirtland Air Force Base, headed for El Paso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Skywayman | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...pair of Sidewinders hung from the Air National Guard F-100 of ist Lieut. James W. Van Scyoc, 27, when he took off from New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base and climbed to make some scheduled practice runs on an eight-engined 6-52 that was flying at 34,000 ft. Van Scyoc was an expert at handling the Sidewinder. Not only was he his squadron's safety officer, but he had written standard operating procedures on the use of the missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Prowler in the Sky | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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