Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With five hours' fuel aboard, Navy Ordnanceman Bill Falls, 22, took off one fine day last month from San Diego's La Mesa Airport in a Taylorcraft borrowed from his best friend, Parachute Rigger Charles Schrieber. A good amateur pilot, Bill had a 24-hour liberty and planned to spend it in Phoenix with his recently widowed mother...
Miller's next step was to find out whether the sites could have been occupied by Indians in A.D. 1054. At one site (White Mesa) he found a few potsherds that probably date back 900 years. At the other site (Navaho Canyon), a deep cut in the canyon floor exposed a great number that are as old or older...
Electric Eyes. He made his way to Los Alamos, the atomic-weapons laboratory atop an isolated mesa in New Mexico. "It is as though the country without castles, moats and drawbridges were making up for its lack of middle ages; a town of 10,000 inhabitants behind a wall protected by electric eyes." He notes that the children of Los Alamos play a kind of hopscotch over chalked squares identified as "radioactive" or "contaminated." At the Hanford Plutonium Works in Richland, Wash., he seeks out the red-staked " 'burial grounds' in which radioactive refuse is interred," adding quite...
Slow Cure. In Mesa, Ariz., Justice of the Peace Jack Hunsaker decided that jailing drunken drivers "only works a hardship on wives and children," declared that from now on he would sentence them to church for ten consecutive Sundays...
...gave uranium mining a big boost by a system of bonus payments. In one month, 1,133 prospectors checked in at AEC headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. "For a while," says a resident, "we were swamped with guys with Geiger counters and shovels. When you went up on the mesa they popped up behind every bit of sagebrush like Indians. But few did any good...