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...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...
Last week Jerrie's strange disappearance was explained in Stockholm by Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II, chairman of the Special Committee on the Life Sciences for Project Mercury, the U.S. astronaut program. Jerrie Cobb had spent her "vacation" in Albuquerque, N. Mex. undergoing a brutal battery of 75 separate physical and psychological tests. She was jabbed with an electric needle, rocked back and forth on a tilting table to test her circulation. Her sense of balance was measured by squirting cold water into her ear canals to induce dizziness. Psychologists peppered her with 195 questions (sample: "Do you wish...
With financial help from the Guggenheim Foundation, Goddard continued his experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. In 1935 one of his rockets, affectionately dubbed Nell, climbed to 7,500 feet and flew faster than sound. In such experiments over the years, Goddard developed the basics of later rocket technology-gyroscopic stabilizers, fuel pumps, self-cooling motors, landing devices. When diagrams of the Germans' V-2 reached the U.S. in 1944, some scientists observed that the internal structure strikingly paralleled Goddard's old Nell...
...Maben Kluckhohn, 55, anthropologist, authority on Southwestern Indian culture, a director of the Army's massive study of Japan during World War II and from 1947 to 1954 of the West's largest private Russian-research center, at Harvard; of a heart attack; in Sante Fe, N. Mex...
...PRES Grants, N. Mex...