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PATRICIA ANNE MATHEWS Albuquerque, N. Mex...
Died. Louis E. Lomax, 47, black newsman (Chicago's American) and author (The Negro Revolt, When the Word Is Given) known for his evenhanded approach to race, who came down hard on black extremists and white segregationists; in an auto crash; near Santa Rosa, N. Mex...
...Washington, D.C. A career Army engineer, Groves was selected in 1942 to lead the crash program that eventually employed 150,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, military men and others. Three years of all-out effort culminated on July 16, 1945, in the first plutonium-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. The following month two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During the debate over nuclear morality that followed, Groves wrote in Now It Can Be Told: "The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. While they brought death and destruction on a horrifying scale, they averted...
Part of the hippie ethic that evolved during the '60s was a communal warmth, the idea of an open and sharing brotherhood. But sometimes there just isn't enough to share. The 2,500 hippies who live in 16 pastoral communes around Taos, N. Mex., have begun slamming doors on newcomers. "When a transient arrives looking for a place to crash," says one communard, "we send him to a motel. We aren't even telling him how to get to the communes...
HUNCHING forward on a chair in the living room of his adobe house in Santa Fe, N. Mex., James P. Shannon, former Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, talks concernedly about the exodus of priests and nuns. "What they need," says Shannon, "is some sort of reassurance that their 'one act' has not completely vitiated them as ministers, as priests, as human beings." Shannon knows what he is talking about. For his "one act"-marrying without dispensation Mrs. Ruth Wilkinson, 51* -he was automatically excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church...