Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning shortly after he had fought the McCarthy censure proceeding to a finish. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins dragged himself from bed to answer his telephone. On the line was a presidential aide who wanted to know if Watkins could be at the White House by 9:30. Weary Arthur Watkins managed to put off the appointment until 10 o'clock, then went down to receive Dwight Eisenhower's congratulations for a job well done. Just before he left, Watkins had an idea. "Mr. President," he asked, "would you permit a suggestion for your...
...people a year see that park. On the other hand, more than 3,000,000 people live in the Upper Colorado Basin states and they are hungry for water. Which is more important?" The Upper Colorado Basin includes 110,000 square miles of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming. New Mexico and Arizona (the Upper and Lower Basin are defined in a seven-state compact signed in 1922, with the dividing line at Lee Ferry, Ariz...
...Korea John Cassity, an Army officer from Grantsville, Utah, once ran across "a real stupid-looking fellow"-a Korean civilian whom the Americans called Mortimer Gooch. Gooch "cleaned up around a tent in headquarters and seemed so dull that it was difficult even to give him orders. When he was finally fired, he pretended to be so stupid that he didn't know he was fired, and kept coming back." Later, Cassity came to believe that the dull Korean was really a Communist spy in disguise. Eventually, Cassity went back to civilian life and became chief security officer...
...eyed care. Their urine and feces are examined with sensitive instruments to determine how fast the radioactive matter is being excreted. Sometimes the cages are airtight, so that the dogs' radioactive breath can be measured too. Radioactive wastes are enclosed in concrete and buried far out on a Utah desert...
Died. Claude Ernest Hooper, 56, one of the best known (with George Gallup and Elmo Roper) of U.S. public pulse-takers, originator (in 1934) of the Hooper ratings for radio and television, one of the most respected audience barometers in the business; in a boating accident; on Utah's Great Salt Lake...