Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horses and sports. At the University of Chicago she became a physicist. She was a junior scientific assistant at Los Alamos when the first atomic bomb was exploded; she and her mother spent happy weeks together in the rough outdoors of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's Perro Caliente ranch, although Oppenheimer cabled last week that he did not know them well. By her own account, "something started to stir" in Joan Hinton when the first A-bombs were dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter, "150,000 lives. One, two, three, four . . . one hundred and fifty thousand . . . Were...
About a year ago, Keith Glasscock, a pipeline welder and amateur archaeologist, spent a Sunday afternoon poking around the Scharbauer Ranch near Midland, Texas. In a "blowout" (a hollow scooped by wind), he found some Folsom points. When he returned a few days later, the wind had dug the hollow deeper. On the surface of the blowing sand were fragments that looked like broken human bones. Glasscock picked them up, but was wise enough not to dig without expert advice...
...Billion Campus. In payrolls, purchases and visitors, the Air Academy will eventually mean $100 million a year to Colorado Springs. The first 300 cadets (class of '59) will begin school in temporary Denver quarters next summer, but before they graduate, the academy will be settled on its ranch-country campus...
Bing Crosby has four sons, and all of them - after a fashion - can sing. But the 19-year-old twins, Philip and Dennis, are dedicated to running the 25,000-acre family ranch in Nevada, and 1 6-year-old Lindsay is too young to have settled on a life work. That leaves 20-year-old Gary Crosby. This week, in Dad's footsteps, Gary opened the first show of his own recorded series (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS radio...
...other big cities too crowded, and has shifted its corporate offices to the country. Now, the movement is spreading to smaller cities. Last week the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., which has outgrown its headquarters in Hartford (pop. 177,397), announced that it will build a $10 million ranch-type office building on 268 rolling acres of farmland five miles northwest of Hartford. It found that it could not only save on the cost of building, but could give its employees many more facilities than in a city headquarters, thus make it easier to get help...