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...last week had to fight off not rustlers but the U.S. Air Force. Farr was driving 500 head of cattle from his ranch to a rail head 40 miles away; the Air Force was about to fire an Athena missile from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, N. Mex. Farr figured that the cattle and the second stage of the missile would reach the same piece of trail at the same time, doggedly persuaded the Air Force to reschedule the shoot and give the cattle right...
Since the first atomic explosion at Alamogordo, N. Mex., in 1945, uranium has been the key ingredient in nuclear armaments. Now, in a surprising change of role, the heavy metal is showing promise in more conventional weapons. When fired from test guns, tiny uranium projectiles produced by California's TRW Systems and several other companies, have had such devastating effects on targets during recent demonstrations that the Department of Defense has been awarding contracts for further development work...
Ralph Davidson, 39, was born in Santa Fe, N. Mex., and grew up in Los Angeles, graduating with an A.B. in international relations from Stanford University in 1950. He joined Time Inc. four years later. After various jobs in the advertising-sales field, he became our European advertising director in 1962. His present job, and that of TIME International, was defined some years ago by Henry R. Luce: "To put into the hands of anyone who wishes to read it, wherever in the world he may be, a copy of the unexpurgated standard edition of TIME in English, not later...
...latest addition to quasar knowledge was obtained by instruments carried aboard an Aerobee rocket shot from White Sands, N. Mex., in May. Soaring above the atmosphere, which absorbs X rays before they reach the earth, the rocket detected X-radiation from quasar 3C 273, from a giant elliptical galaxy called M 87, and from three locations in the sky where no celestial objects are visible. The recorded radiation from the quasar was only one-thousandth as great as that from a starlike object called Sco XR-1-which appears to be the brightest X-ray emitter in the sky (TIME...
Because of the potential returns, all cattle breeders watch closely for just such "accidents." A completely unexpected one, for example, has turned up at Bueyeros, N. Mex., involving a six-year-old Hereford bull named Doctor Onward 211. The bull, it seems, has 14 ribs instead of the usual 13. More than that, it has passed on the mutation to many of its offspring. Of the 200 calves sired so far by Doctor Onward, 65 have been born with an extra rib-and thus an extra cut of valuable beef...