Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satellites & Earaches. The "city," essentially, is no more; its 455-sq.-mi. area with 2,000,000 inhabitants is only a mother country, and its satellites sprawl around its perimeter for 4,853 sq. mi.-more than three times the size of Rhode Island-overreaching Los Angeles County, enveloping adjacent Orange County to the south. It is the nation's fastest-growing megalopolis, with a population (6,000,000) exceeding that of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada combined. And, like an energized amoeba, it is bewilderingly fertile...
Oilmen from coast to coast awoke to what Phillips and Home Oil had suspected: the entire area from Great Slave south to Lesser Slave Lake and west to the Rockies, some 100,000 sq. mi. in all, was probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...
When Publisher William Randolph Hearst at 88 shuffled off his editorial coil, his most fabulous legacy was his California barony-on-the-Pacific (375 sq. mi. in its heyday) known as San Simeon. Through the 14 Hearst newspapers last week, W.R.H.'s sundry heirs and the Hearst Corp.-good taxpayers all-announced that the 120-acre heart of their splendiferous white elephant, worth some $50,000 a year to California in taxes, had been given to the State of California. A condition of the gift, which includes a Moorish castle: it will be dedicated as a "historical monument...
...fame of a naturalized Chinese named Kao K'o-kung, whose ancestors came Lorn Central Asia. He joined the Khan's court, and rose to become his Minister of Justice. Endowed with extraordinary ability as a painter, he first patterned his style on the impressionist manner of Mi, later emulated the landscapes of loth century Painter Tung Yuan, finally retired to savor the intellectual climate of Hangchow. His Mist in Wooded Mountains shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself, in the mountains...
...flying without ground guidance at the landing site has been a long-sought goal. Last week in Dallas, the goal was reached by Bell Aviation helicopter division and Bendix Aviation, which successfully tested an "electronic road map" that tells a pilot exactly where he is within a 100-sq.-mi. area. Using the landing system, the helicopter took off and flew to within 20 ft. of its destination without the pilot's being able...