Word: papagos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What nature finds successful, man does well to copy. So thought Dr. Lytle S. Adams of San Diego, who likes to think up new jobs for airplanes. This month, backed by U.S. Government funds, he is flying back & forth across the denuded pasture lands of the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona. From his Bellanca Pacemaker drops a stream of pellets...
...this new seeding method makes the Papago Reservation lush with Lovegrass, Dr. Adams intends to try it on other denuded regions in the dry Southwest. He looks forward to the time when his man-made bird-pellets will be used to reseed all Western rangelands every ten years...
...desert baby (first issue: 1,000 copies) is co-edited by two men born in Arizona ghost towns: Frederick Cromwell, 36; Harry Behn, 46, who wrote movie scenarios for Hell's Angels and The Big Parade. Both hope to draw more heavily on Yaqui and Papago folklore than on the literary curiosa that usually deadens quarterlies. Best bets...
...Germans at Arizona's desert-bordered Papago Park camp were full of wooden-faced horseplay. Prisoners nagged their guards, sometimes hid for days only to turn up well-fed and grinning. They were tough, picked men, almost all from Nazi U-boat crews. Beneath their erratic behavior guards could sense some hidden discipline, could only guess, month after month, at its purpose. Last week the patternless war of nerves seemed to be approaching a climax. Hundreds of prisoners formed ranks one afternoon to cheer the German advances on the western front. Then, as guards advanced, the shouting stopped...
...Secret. As the telephone began to ring at Papago Park, the camp's tall, grey-haired commander, Colonel William A. Holden, knew for the first time that 25 prisoners, all ardent Nazis, had escaped under his nose. Guards soon discovered camouflaged holes in the fence. Then, two days after the break, they discovered a tunnel which opened in an outdoor coal shed, led 200 feet to the bank of a deep irrigation canal...