Word: arvada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arvada, Colo...
Precise Timing. The latest liver surgery in Denver involved the deathwatch and precise timing that are a common feature of homotransplants. Housewife Jeanine Goodfellow, 29, of Arvada, arrived at the University of Colorado Medical Center in September with cancer of the liver so advanced that her only real hope of life lay in taking the long chance of becoming the first human being to survive with a transplanted liver...
...Arvada, Colo., pretty Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of a young plumber, registered as a Republican. Last November Shirley Jean wrote President Eisenhower and Harry Truman asking their advice on how to cast her first vote. Truman sent her a grumpy reply, advising her to read her history books, but Ike responded by aiming a national fund-raising address at the young woman and thrusting her into the national spotlight (TIME, Feb. 8). What finally made up her mind to be a Republican, she said, was unfair Democratic criticism of Ike over the U-2 incident...
Political Morticians. Ike's frankly political speech was couched in the form of a reply to Mrs. Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of Arvada (Colo.) Plumber William M. Havens, and mother of two. Last November she wrote the President asking for a statement of Republican principles. (Two months later she was tactfully scouted by Ike's old friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen, who subsequently promised she would be answered by TV and swore her to secrecy.) "It is true," said Ike, "that government has to do many things which, individually, we cannot do for ourselves . . . But the principle...