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...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...
Does a Uganda giraffe ever bear triplets? What fish is venerated in parts of South America at Easter? Why does the glass-winged butterfly have transparent wings? Where is the sole nesting ground of the Kirtland's warbler? This week, amateur and professional nature-lovers, from John Kieran to Herbert Hoover, could find the answers* to such questions in the 50th Anniversary issue of Natural History (circ. 40,000), the official magazine of the biggest natural history museum...
...George Humphrey rules so huge and scattered an empire that he sometimes travels 100,000 miles a year keeping tabs on it. Yet he still finds time to hunt foxes from his rambling estate at Kirtland, near Cleveland, and to hunt quail on his game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. Publicity-shy, he stays backstage so much that few fellow Clevelanders know him well or even realize how big a tycoon...
...year-old Lt. Ewing Shields III, brother of Miss Shirley Anu Shields, a civil service employee of the Chaplain School Administration Center. Lt. Shields was killed in action over Halsey, England on 13 November, a month after he had left the United States. Initially commissioned as a bombardier at Kirtland Field New Mexico, he received his navigator wings at the AAF Navigation School Administration Marcos, Texas...