Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Cabot Lodge-marvelous! The more I thought about it, the more delighted I became. It's like a breath of fresh air to have a candidate, written in or not, going about his business and not calling any opponents any nasty names. MARY JEAN KALIN La Mesa, Calif...
...village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
...line of lavishly costumed Indians stretched across the sacred ground of a Utah mesa. In the darkness it faced east where the red morning sun would rise. As the first rays of the new sun fell upon them, the Indians dusted the sunlight over their bodies with eagle feathers and blew on shrill whistles carved of eagle bone...
...John is still king. As Cattle Baron George Washington McLintock, he rules a dusty duchy that includes a town, a railroad depot, and a couple of hundred square miles of the Mesa Verde. "I'm gonnna leave most of it to the nation for a park," he says. The only thing G.W. can't rule is his missus, Maureen O'Hara, who keeps bolting out of the herd and heading East, where she picks up the notion that she wants a divorce. Mesa Verde's social horizons seem limited, since the highlight of the season...
Astronomic Odds. Last week the program got under way as five slender, needlelike Army Pershing missiles lifted from a barren mesa outside the town of Blanding, Utah, climbed above the earth's atmosphere and arced to bull's-eye landings in impact areas at the heavily instrumented White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, some 350 miles to the southeast. Later this month, the Air Force will launch the first of some 80 Athena rockets from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, a span of almost 500 miles. The Athenas, toting experimental nose cones are expected to provide...