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...death, staring steadily into the electronic eye can be endlessly boring. Radar sites are usually remote and lonely. Permanent stations, costing $5,000,000 each to build and $500,000 yearly to run, are surprisingly elaborate. Example: "Mother Goose," a warning site about 65 miles east of Albuquerque, N. Mex., is set up to protect the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory...
...answer is the seventh grade, Edison Elementary School at Hobbs, N. Mex. (see cut), where desegregation-after a brief flare-up-now works...
Such Sweet Sorrow. In Gallup, N. Mex., Fireman Paul Peck asked the town council to pay him for the ten days' work he did after he was fired, explained that he was hard of hearing and did not understand he had been...
...American Legion last week elected a new national commander: Seaborn P. Collins Jr., 42, a wartime transport pilot who runs a realty business in Las Cruces, N. Mex. He succeeded Arthur J. Connell of Middletown, Conn., who led the Legion's "Back-to-God" movement and who, Legionnaires said, may be the last national commander dating from World War I. The not-so-new veterans of World War II are taking over the Legion. At last week's convention they were determined to fight off criticism that veterans' benefits had gone...
...once-segregated Hobbs, N. Mex. (just four miles from the Texas border), white and Negro children quietly went off to school together without incident, despite the warnings of the Rev. William (Bill) Carter, who had declared that the town would explode into violence. Local police refused to get hysterical, kept extra patrol cars and men inconspicuous, and the local district attorney quieted Carter with a warning that he would be held responsible for any outbreaks...