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RICH new ore deposits have been found by the Union Pacific Railroad, 25 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyo. Proven reserves are at least 50 million tons of iron, 12 million tons of titanium, and possibly 2 million tons of vanadium, used for strengthening steel. U.P., which owns or controls 60% of the claims, will run in a spur line to the deposits...
Overestimate. In Cheyenne, Wyo., offered a suspended sentence if she could guess how many days the court had in mind, Fortune-Teller Olga Rambova hesitated, then replied, "I think it's 30 days," was sent to jail for 25 days...
...Laramie, Wyo., Scientist Robert P. Pfeifer of the University of Wyoming reported a new use for daytime radio programs. When amplified over a public-address system set in a grain field, soap operas "were enough to scare the wits out of blackbirds and sparrows. The predators quickly chose other fields of grain to feed...
...heard the same sort of determined support for public power voiced by G.O.P. voters in Nebraska (a public-power state) and by people throughout the Northwest (where it has become an issue of enormous magnitude); for federal-irrigation projects by G.O.P.-voting farmers in Riverton, Shoshoni and Douglas, Wyo., and for the strictest maintenance of present Government rules regulating the use of national parks and U.S. forests by chambers of commerce in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana...
Filmed largely around Jackson Hole, Wyo., Shane bulges with authentic sights & sounds. As the yarn plunges forward scene after scene hints at the pleasures and hardships of frontier life: homesteaders dancing and setting off homemade explosives at a July 4 party; bloody fistfighting in a saloon; little girls solemnly watching a sow with her sucklings; the ring of hand axes against a stump; tumbleweed brushing the legs of jittery horses; a harmonica solo of taps as a pine coffin is lowered into a hilltop grave Without recourse to tricky 3-D photography and Polaroid glasses, Stevens, with ordinary Technicolor camera...