Word: tucumcari
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better the junket, the worse the show" is an axiom in the entertainment business. Movie and TV companies have lately transported planeloads of correspondents to Ireland (for the premiere of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People), to Tucumcari, N. Mex. (for the shooting of CBS-TV's Rawhide), and to practically anywhere else a travel-minded reporter would want to go. The latest and possibly most lavish junket was under way last week when ABC-TV took eleven reporters and four pressagents to Hawaii to publicize its new, $3,600,000, hour-long...
...Near Tucumcari, N.Mex., Anaconda Copper, Gulf Oil and others were in the field, and the county recorder's office was swamped with 75 new claims in two days, following an Atomic Energy Commission announcement that a radioactive area had been discovered...
...Bone & Helmet. While the Shay discovery was in the works, other Southwestern amateurs were busy. Two high-school teachers of Tucumcari, N. Mex. found a dinosaur leg bone 4½ feet long. A group of officers from Sandia Base, poking in a cave near Socorro, N. Mex., found all sorts of 1,200-year-old Indian stuff, including yucca-fiber ropes and a pouchful of oddments that were the professional equipment of an ancient medicine...
Personality Problem. In Albuquerque, recaptured after he had slipped out of state prison and chartered a plane to Tucumcari, N. Mex., State Prison Trusty William Alexander explained: "The warden hurt my feelings...