Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Among his neighbors in the desert and mountain country around Grants, N.Mex. (pop. 2,281), husky, 59-year-old Paddy Martinez is conceded to be a well-rounded man. Paddy is part Navajo and part Spanish, stands 6 ft. 1 in., weighs 195, and has an outdoorsman's grizzled face. He runs a mountain sheep camp, works as a "head hunter" (labor recruiter) for carrot growers, talks Spanish, English, Navajo and the Laguna Indian language, has 14 children "and a lot of little fellows around the hogans" and is a dead shot with a rifle. He is also canny...
When he was only 13, Thomas Verner Moore knew what he wanted to be-a hermit. The son of a Louisville insurance man, young Tom Moore had had his imagination fired by a book on the so-called Desert Fathers of the Church who retired from the world in the 3rd and 4th Centuries to devote their lives to silent contemplation of God. But Thomas Moore lived a busy life far from the desert; he grew up to be a priest and a physician, prior of a Benedictine monastery, founder of a psychiatric clinic for children, and finally head...
...Never before, said Conductor David Moore, had he traveled so fast. Moore's train, the Transcontinental Express, which crosses Australia's desert thrice weekly, was not supposed to exceed 40 m.p.h., but as it roared through the scheduled stop at Deakin one day last month, Moore clocked its speed at a breakneck 72 m.p.h. Passengers caught in the aisles of the six-car train were thrown to the floor as it rocked and swayed. Those who kept their seats had to dodge an avalanche of baggage falling from the racks above their heads...
...calculated to reassure him. A blonde female head was leaning out of the engineer's window on one side of the hurtling locomotive ahead. On the other side, another blonde female head protruded. Soon afterward the train pulled to a screaming stop in the middle of the desert. Wobbling perceptibly, Engine-driver Fred Leahy dismounted, wove away to the front of his locomotive and lay down on the tracks, his neck on one gleaming rail, his ankles on the other. Fireman George Swetman lightened the pause by trying to play a tune on the engine whistle...
...mobilized a fleet of ships that carried 3 billion ton-miles of freight-including 265,000 tons of pipe-from more than 5,000 U.S. suppliers. On a Persian Gulf sandspit, he built a port. Across the desert he threaded 930 miles of highway. He operated 1,500 cars and trucks, built airfields, ran Tapline's own private airline and radio communication system. To get water, Hull's men dug 40 producing wells which now supply water to 100,000 Bedouin tribesmen, 150,000 camels and 300,000 sheep and goats. At the pipeline's six lonely...