Word: tularosa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about one out of three, live in the great outdoors now celebrated almost entirely in never-ever television westerns. In a curious miracle of abandonment, Americans have become strangers in a landscape that they believe has built their national character. But not all. North of Alamogordo and east of Tularosa, south of Hondo and only six miles crow flight from an Apache reservation-in the dusty desolation of New Mexico-Artist Peter Kurd works in a perpetual state of wonderment...
...first big U.S. rockets came down on dry land at the Army's White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico's arid Tularosa Basin north of El Paso. But when the Air Force became the principal U.S. rocket-launching agency, it set up shop at Cape Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit...
...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...