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Mecca, with Lift. Skidom's newest center is on the Rockies' western slope. Early in the war, the Army, looking for a place to train its loth Mountain (ski) Division, picked Colorado for its crisp air, and powdery snow, and the Alpine grandeur of its slopes. As a result, a ski mecca with the world's longest ski lift (14,100 feet) will open this month at Aspen, formerly a quiet Colorado mining town. In Steamboat Springs, schools have begun ski-instruction courses, and three Big Seven Conference colleges (Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) have adopted skiing...
Along the montaña, the eastern slope, maybe oil would be discovered. The explorer Humboldt spoke of Peru as "a beggar sitting on a golden throne...
Willie Francis ought to know what color death is. The skinny, slope-headed, 17-year-old Louisiana Negro saw and tasted death on May 3 as he sat and waited for it, strapped in Louisiana's portable electric chair. It tasted "like cold peanut butter," and took on "little blue and pink and green speckles, like shines in a rooster's tail" when the executioner whispered: "Goodbye, Willie...
...Army's Japanese farms will be divided into five-acre plots, ridged with about 90 concrete growing basins. Washed gravel fills them to give anchorage for growing plants. Down the troughlike basins (they slope gently, are graduated in three broad steps) floods chemically charged water, two or three times a day. In hydroponic farming the irrigating water is loaded with soluble salts of every specific chemical needed, and thus may be superior to any natural soil, for few soils contain all the essentials for vigorous plant growth...
...about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped, turned and silently moved his lips. Antonio lip-read his words: "In Nairobi, fed up with prison...