Word: mex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's famed atom smashers. At the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the galaxies. Thanks to Cal's engineers, California's farms are the most mechanized in the U.S. The university runs the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N. Mex. It owns ranches, apartment buildings, forests, hospitals, vineyards, movie studios and seven oceangoing ships. On its 25,877 acres, a man can freeze or fry without leaving the premises. The university employs 3,000 professors, parks 19,200 cars and offers 7,900 courses. This year Cal will cost $360 million...
...established a Raketenentwicklungszentrale for the German rocket buffs. Von Braun, then only 25, was put in charge of the technical side of the program. When the Reich collapses. Von Braun & Co. flee south to offer their secrets and services to the U.S. Army. Set up in White Sands. N. Mex., the rocketmen start plodding down the long trail of tests that leads at last to the launching of the first U.S. satellites...
...about 25?to 35? per 1,000 gallons for their water, and the Government's aim is to find a method that will convert brackish or salt water at the same price. Other plants in the program are scheduled to be built at Webster, S. Dak., Roswell, N. Mex. and on the East Coast...
...growing oil-and-beef city of Artesia, N. Mex., where the temperature sometimes hits 100° in October, citizens have long become used to windowless schools. It helps air conditioning, and the children approve. But last week Artesia* announced an even more singular design. Except for the flagpole, Abo Elementary school will be entirely underground-apparently the first such nuclear-age school in the U.S. Says Architect Frank Standhardt: "I consider my profession derelict on civil defense. We've had ten years of grace and done nothing about...