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...CLARK Las Cruces, N. Mex...
Oppenheimer was chairman of this group during that same period and for one additional year. From 1943 to 1945 he directed the laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex., that perfected the atomic bomb...
...suggestion of the local Chamber of Commerce, the Ministerial Alliance of Canyon, Texas (pop. 4,364) started a series of public prayers for rain. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., also in the Southwest's drought area, Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne ordered prayers for rain, too. A few hours later, rain fell...
...eastern Colorado thousands of miles of fences are down-pushed over by drifting sand. Mudballs form over the eyes of cattle, and wild geese fall dead with their bills and throats packed with dirt. At Field, N. Mex. (pop. 25), a dust storm halted the funeral of 73-year-old Mrs. Alice Towner, who had walked toward her mailbox in a previous storm, been swallowed by the blinding dust, wandered lost and helpless, and finally died in a nearby pasture. Oklahoma City's Engineer W. W. Baker estimated that one storm last week deposited 185,000 tons of dust...
When production started near Silver City, N. Mex. (pop. 7,000), the townspeople rioted and warned the moviemakers to get out of town before they were shipped out "in black boxes" (TIME, March 16, 1953). Under police protection, Jarrico & Co. kept shooting until the leading lady, Mexican Actress Rosaura Revueltas, was deported as an illegal alien...