Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years) when he should have enjoyed the bounding prime of youth, a Utah beagle's muzzle was grey, his bones brittle, his joints creaky. Reason: since puppyhood, he had received regular injections of radioactive isotopes at the University of Utah's Beagleville (TIME, Dec. 27, 1954). Radiobiologists guessed that constant exposure to internal radiation somehow diminished the beagle's natural resistance to stress, accelerating the aging process. Further studies of radioactive beagles may provide clues to the nature of the aging process in man, suggest ways to impede...
...human has as yet tried the new seat, but Lockheed is so encouraged by fullscale, 1,000-m.p.h. trials at the Air Force's research track on Hurricane Mesa, Utah that the device will go into production before its test cycle is complete, probably by midyear. Lockheed's flying seat has many advantages over the capsule cockpit: it is light, simple, cheap and can fit many aircraft now in service...
...reporter of U.S. journalism, TV scored a double coup last week: not only did it jump quickly onto a big news story, a nightlong seizure of Utah's state prison by 511 inmates, but it helped to bring the story to a happy ending...
Price of Surrender. KTVT* stayed on the scene and on the air through the night -and thousands of Utah citizens stayed up to watch. The cameras caught many intimate tableaux-an inmate being carried out after a heart attack, the release of a handful of hostages, including a trembling attendant who had been forced to pump the stomachs of prisoners groggy with narcotics and rubbing alcohol. Then the prisoners named the price of surrender: their grievances, over such matters as bad food, harsh treatment, must get publicity and an investigation by Governor George D. Clyde. The convicts snatched at Larson...
...system, jointly formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co. to supply California with its first piped crude oil. Houstonian R. G. McIntyre, recently retired chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Texas, was elected president of Four Corners, named for the oil-rich area where the borders of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. The new line will extend 600 miles from the area to Los Angeles, be built by Shell Pipe Line Corp. at a cost of $50 million. When completed at year's end, its initial capacity will be 60,000 bbl. daily, which could...