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...most of his acquaintances around Tucson, Charles Schmid Jr., 23, seemed more sick than sinister. A compulsive blabbermouth who prated indefatigably of his sexual and fistic derring-do, the squat (5 ft. 3 in.), sullen-faced high school dropout dyed his hair black, caked his face with makeup, and stuffed so much wadding in his boots to make him look taller that he could hardly walk. Yet among the odd collection of restless, thrill-hungry teen-agers who hang out in the garish juke joints and drive-ins along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard (TIME, Nov. 26), swart, blue...
...armed forces medical-supply system, pushed for higher fitness standards among draftees, and generally improved combat medical facilities to the point where he was able to report a Korean War death rate among wounded of just under 2% (vs. 4.5% in World War II); of complications from emphysema; in Tucson, Arizona...
...Tucson Teen-Agers...
...teens of Tucson who knew of Charles Schmid's ghastly murders [Nov. 26] prove that dry rot has set in, not only in Arizona but in all of America. There is very little conscience in a nation whose teen-agers withhold information about wanton murders...
More than the Sun. Working with the new 61-in. reflecting telescope at the university's Catalina Observatory near Tucson, Dr. Frank J. Low focused Jupiter's image on a germanium bolometer -an infrared measuring device of his own invention that is more sensitive than any other now in use. After analyzing the feeble radiation, he determined that Jupiter's effective temperature is - 225 °F.-much warmer than the - 274 °F. that Jupiter would register if it were an ordinary planet radiating only the heat it received from the sun. To reach the higher temperature...