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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...
Last November Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...
...others), but has had them all toiling cheerfully for years to support him. Sheriff's officers arrested six of them on a charge of "notorious cohabitation" last week. Four (plus ten children) were working happily together on a ten-acre farm near the town of Mesa. One (with eight children) was toiling on another farm, and a sixth was hard at work running a store and gas station. The two other wives live outside the state, one in Salt Lake City, one in Rock Springs...