Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Discovered valuable deposits of uranium in Canada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico (though nothing has yet been found to equal the Belgian Congo's fabulous Shinkelowbe mine...
...artiness; Adams shoots straight, as these pictures of Utah's Capitol Reef and Yosemite's Vernal Fall show. Painting, he thinks, has a bad influence on photographers, leading them to romanticize what they see. Adams shuns trick effects. Objectivity, reinforced by every technical resource of the medium, is what he strives for. Adams has great reverence for the world he photographs, and the combination of realism and reverence is the measure of the man and of his work...
...received his A.B. in 1946 and his A.M. in 1947 from the University of Buffalo; Allen Mandelbaum of New York City, a history and English scholar, who received his A.B. from Yeshiva University in 1945 and his A.M. from Columbia in 1946; and Richard P. Smith of Garland, Utah, a chemist, who received his A.B. from the University of Utah...
...Between 1941 and 1944, while some of his West Point classmates were winning general's stars, Colonel Van Fleet trained the 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Division; on Dday, one of the Army s older combat colonels he led his regiment to the landing on Utah Beach in Normandy. For Colonel Van Fleet, battle was the true test. Within seven months he was a major general, commander first of the 4th, then the 90th Divisions. He fought the 90th across the flooded Moselle against heavy German counterattacks. By March 1945, he was commander of the III Corps...
President McKay, big and still buoyant at 77, was a schoolteacher at 15. In 1897 he graduated from the University of Utah, then served a two-year mission term in Scotland, the land of his ancestors. Since 1934, as second counsellor to the president, he has had world missions under his special care. Gentle David McKay has long been considered Mormonism's most spiritual leader, but Mormons know his administration is likely to be as practical as it is saintly. President McKay's one hobby: training riding horses to the saddle and draft horses to work...