Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest kennel of inbred beagles is "Beagleville," on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It has another distinction: most of its 450 beagles are radioactive. Their job under an Atomic Energy Commission contract is to determine the "burden" of radioactivity that a beagle (or human) body can carry for a lifetime without damage. The dogs are injected with graduated amounts of plutonium, radium, radiothorium or mesothorium. These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha particles...
McCarthy had a statement to make answering President Eisenhower, who had congratulated Utah's Senator Watkins on a "splendid job" of preparing censure recommendations against McCarthy. Joe had first planned, he later confided to a few friends, to shoot his statement from the hip, but since he felt bad, had decided to write it out. In his office he dictated the statement to Jean. Then Mary Driscoll, McCarthy's secretary, delivered it to Mundt, whispering in his ear that her boss would like him to read it into the record and the TV cameras. After glancing over...
...processing plant at Salt Lake City. After three anxious weeks, Fred heard from the AEC. In the envelope were two $6,000 checks and a top-grade assay. Fred's mine was a vein deposit of high-grade uranium ore (only one other major vein deposit-in Marysvale, Utah-is producing...
Rory Calhoun is a killer wanted in Utah. Stephen McNally is a deputy sheriff who is bringing him in. Lost in the California hills, they stop at Brian Aherne's sheep farm. Brian is away, but Jean Simmons, his daughter, fills the office of host -and her blue jeans, too-very nicely 'Father taught at Oxford," she informs her guests. Rory asks politely: "That's the biggest isn't it?" "The world sickened m, Jean goes on, "and he [came out ] find peace and isolation." Then she reads to them from father's works...
...else in the picture (and may be, at that), condescends to lick his hand. Moreover, Sheriff McNally -a character who has to be unpleasant on principle, since the scriptwriter forgot to give him any specific motivations-mellows a little, too, and in the end they all charge off to Utah together as cheerily as vestrymen to a box supper on the church lawn. "Great Britain and the State of Utah," says Rory to Jean in a wobbly voice. "It's impossible...