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Almost ten times as powerful as any of their predecessors, the new American eyes will be installed in high-altitude observatories at Climax, Colo. and on Sacramento Peak near High Rolls, N. Mex. Their cameras will soon be tracing the progress of the sun across the southwestern U.S., helping practical astronomers to study the origin of cosmic rays, to work out new methods of long-range weather prediction, perhaps to uncover atomic secrets from the sun's hot heart...
...account. "If we would preserve America," he said, "our demands upon our elected representatives must be based upon the general welfare and not upon shortsighted selfishness." With that and his resignation on file, he said goodbye to the House and left for Texas, there to become counsel for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. at $25,000 a year...
With the Southwest facing one of the worst droughts in its history, the hunt was on for new ways to get around the perennial shortage of rain. Last week in El Paso, young (30) Dr. Peter Duisberg, agricultural chemist from New Mexico A. & M., reported to the Southwestern Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that desert research might well be "opening up a new agricultural frontier." He was ready to name scores of plants that need almost no water and might be converted into products varying all the way from varnish to broomstraws...
...Bear Grass (Nolina microcarpa which yields excellent broomstraw. The supply in southwestern New Mexico alone is estimated at about 1,000,000 tons. The market price...
...them. They are also schools where law students mingle with practicing lawyers, share their common rooms, libraries, dining halls, listen to their shoptalk. Last week, this idea in legal education found its way to Texas in the form of a new $2,500,000 Southwestern Legal Center at Southern Methodist University...