Word: mex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seek out the fun seekers, our 50 writers, correspondents and photographers joined them, traveling across the country, stopping at Tex-Mex food stands, riding hot-air balloons and Giant Dippers and taking on the great outdoors. A roller-coaster aficionado since she rode - and rerode- one at a county fair in her native Georgia, Staff Writer B.J. Phillips last week crisscrossed the country from New York to California, visiting six amusement parks in search of the ultimate ride. Her technique was simple: sit twice in the front car for the view, twice in the rear car for the speed...
...either Peckinpah is not whispering enough on this movie, which is being shot in Cuba-Cuba, N. Mex.-or he is whispering too much. Or perhaps it is a combination of boredom, dust and the New Mexico sun. At any rate, Peckinpah should have had the rest of the beer because, whatever the problem, the crew of his latest picture, Convoy, is threatening to reverse the usual procedure and quit before being fired. "Either Sam has gone mad or the rest of us have," says a wardrobe man. Adds a cameraman: "This is a training ground for idiots...
Carl Swanson Raton, N. Mex...
...pellet coating flies outward, it pushes back against the deuterium and tritium, compressing and heating the mixture. If the impinging beams are energetic enough, the effect will be so great that the nuclei will fuse, releasing energy like a miniature H-bomb. Among others, researchers at Los Alamos (N. Mex.) Scientific Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore lab have achieved fusion in laser experiments with the pellets. More impressive reactions may occur in late 1977, when scientists at Lawrence Livermore complete work on the $25 million Shiva, the world's largest and most powerful laser. On the other hand, experts...
...when Paco's friend gave him the cartoon from the slick girlie mag, he thought it was funny and hung it up next to the eagle and laughed at it al the while never understanding the message. His roommates understood, even the sadistic chem major. They called Paco "Super-Mex" and offered to make him an honorary gringo, and they even bought him the black leather briefcase for his birthday...