Word: mex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RONN GINN Albuquerque, N. Mex...
...artists: Peter Kurd, who has painted a number of covers for us, and his wife, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, whose portrait of her brother, famed Artist Andrew Wyeth, was our Christmas cover in 1963. The Hurds, who usually paint in separate studios on their ranch at San Patricio, N. Mex., saw the President at the White House, along with Washington Bureau Chief John L. Steele and White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey. For 2½ hours, while the President and Steele and Sidey talked about the issues of the world, the Hurds sketched and made notes. Henriette worked on drawing paper, Peter...
...sounded like artillery fire rolling in over the rocky desert floor, but the sonic booms generated by the F-104 Starfighters did nothing more than rattle the windows of the 18 buildings spread out over five acres at White Sands Missile Range, N. Mex. The first pass by a Starfighter produced a shock of 4 Ibs. per square foot of overpressure.* Another boom was boosted to 6 Ibs. per square foot, and subsequent booms raised the overpressure to as high as 10 Ibs. per square foot. But nothing broke. Officials of the Federal Aviation Agency began to break...
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...local markets with outside channels. Cumberland, Md.'s Potomac Valley TV Co. provides five Washington channels for its 18,000 subscribers, and Panther Valley TV in Lansford, Pa., a 1950 industry pioneer, picks up New York and Philadelphia as well as Scranton; TelePrompTer plans a Farmington, N. Mex., system that will use twelve microwave relays to bring in Los Angeles, 800 miles away. Cable TV's profitability also upsets the telephone companies, which rent the poles for CATV cables at modest costs. The onetime $1.50-$2 charge per pole has risen to $3-$5. Southern Bell recently announced...