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...works, other Southwestern amateurs were busy. Two high-school teachers of Tucumcari, N. Mex. found a dinosaur leg bone 4½ feet long. A group of officers from Sandia Base, poking in a cave near Socorro, N. Mex., found all sorts of 1,200-year-old Indian stuff, including yucca-fiber ropes and a pouchful of oddments that were the professional equipment of an ancient medicine...
...onychophagy in his practice, but never bothers to do anything about it. After all, it is only nail-biting, and it is not the reason for the patient's visit. Also, it gets little attention in medical texts. When Dr. James M. Hesser, of Benson, out in the yucca-and-mesquite mesas of Arizona, wanted to know more about the cause & cure of nail-biting, he asked the A.M.A. Journal to fill him in. Last week the Journal replied...
When millions of Americans watched the world's first network telecast of an atomic explosion, two months ago, the feat was made possible by a microwave apparatus, which relayed the image from Yucca Flat, Nev. to a transmitting station on the top of Mount Wilson 140 miles away. This week, when the new superliner United States spreads its cuisine before notables on its maiden voyage, the steaks will be cooked on a Radarange, which does the job electronically in half a minute. On the big ship's bridge are two Fathometers to sound the ocean's depth...
Died. Howard W. Blakeslee, 72, Pulitzer Prizewinning science editor (since 1928) of the Associated Press; ten days after he covered the atom bomb test at Yucca Flat, Nev.; of a coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington...
Long before H-hour, millions of expectant televiewers across the U.S. were gathered around their sets. As the minutes ticked by, the announcer on News Nob, ten miles from Yucca Flat, Nev., described the scene tensely. Only 15 minutes before H-hour, the picture grew shaky, wobbled, then disappeared. When it came back, there was a new camera angle, this time from Charleston Peak, 57 miles away. Then, at 9:30 a.m. P.S.T., viewers got what they were waiting for: a live telecast of an atomic explosion, the first ever covered on a television network...