Word: aspen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of vivid, sometimes startling, contrasts. Thousands of miles of its flatlands are rich with the emerald green of winter-wheat shoots; other thousands of miles are pasture, dotted with grazing cattle. But the western half of the state is ruggedly mountainous, the steep slopes necked with aspen and capped with snow. Colorado is a land of mining ghost towns and booming oil, gas, missile and atom-research centers. Men in cow boy boots and ten-gallon hats still swing off the cattle trains; but now other men, in Brooks Brothers suits, stride purposefully down the ramps of jet airliners...
...tiny Marble, Colo., (pop. 5) stepped 44 boys from slums and suburbs in 15 states. There they stood awed and silent. All around were 14,000-ft. mountains covered with snow, aspen, blue spruce and Douglas fir; in the craggy heights roamed elk, bear and mountain sheep. The boys could tell it was no place for softies as they started trudging up the steep, three-mile road to a campsite high above the Crystal River Valley. Under the deep blue sky waited tents, blazing alpine meadows and leathery-faced instructors. "I hope you will enjoy your stay here," declared...
...Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival opens this evening with a panel discussion on the case for public support of the arts in the Quincy Dining Hall at 8:30 p.m. Conductor Leopold Stokowski is a member of the panel, which also includes Norman Singer, director of the Aspen (Colorado) Music Festival, and author Dean Brelis...
...happily evident that she was no namby-pamby dilletance of the piano. Only a slight sloppiness at the end of the first movement and a bit too much pedal at times detracted from the virtuoso level of the performance. Miss Oppens, who performed this concerto also at the Aspen Music Festival, will be around for four years; she has won an audience which will follow her development with interest...
...Aspen, Colo., which likes to think of itself as the U.S. ski capital. "No Vacancy" signs were up everywhere. The Aspen Ski Corp.'s gross for the last three months was 15% ahead of the same period last season. Long the favorite resort of the dedicated skier because of its constant supply of dry, powder snow, Aspen has been discovered recently by the snowbunny set. Grumbles William R. Dunnaway, proprietor of the Aspen Times: "The new people are the sort who don't get up until noon, ski for an hour, then start getting ready for cocktails...