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...mother-in-law, Ason Tso, near Many Farms, 150 miles east of the Grand Canyon. Mary Grey-Eyes, 35, a broad-faced, well-built mother of two, seemed fit despite chronic gall-bladder disease. But one Saturday afternoon, as towering Black Mountain's shadow reached across Carson Mesa to the comfortless, slab-sided hogan, the pain in Mary's side got worse than ever. Soon she was nauseated and feverish; then her headache became unbearable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Mary Grey-Eyes | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev.--The United States ended its fall nuclear test series Thursday with a record underground blast that ripped a huge hole in the side of a mesa. The climax left scientists weary from days of round the clock effort to finish the series by the deadline time Thursday...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Soviet Government Will Not Stop Testing Nuclear Weapons Today; Americans Complete Test Series | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

FRANK R. MAIORANA Mesa, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Barely three years ago the Southwest's Four Corners area was a 15,000-sq.-mi. wasteland inhabited by Indians, mostly Navajo, whose sheep battled the jackrabbits for meager forage. Last week the mesa-dotted region, where the boundaries of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet, was the hottest petroleum area in the U.S. Each day El Paso Natural Gas Co. piped more than 600 million cu. ft. of natural gas to the Los Angeles market from 3,000 wells; other companies piped huge amounts to the Pacific Northwest, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Oil company pipelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: The Four-Cornered Can | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...Gavin should be likened to a latter-day Mutiny on the Bounty. Suffice to say that "Slim Jim" must be pretty egocentric if he quits because the other cogs in the military wheel won't operate on the suggestions he made. What a terrific chumpnik! JEFF SPRUNG La Mesa, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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