Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...environment issue was not as easily identified in some elections. Just how much Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes' vigorous program to curb water pollution helped him win reelection, for example, is conjectural-though it surely did help. In Aspen, Colo., on the other hand, Mayoral Candidate Eve Homeyer beat her two male opponents by promising to save "the quality of life" in the pleasant, fast-growing mountain resort...
Pizzicato passages, stratospheric glissandi, cadenza after cadenza-the balding, blue-eyed violinist tackled each without hesitation and butchered each in turn, always about a quarter-tone off pitch. Eventually, the concertmaster mercifully took the solo play away from the wounded virtuoso. The Aspen, Colo., audience was delighted by the shenanigans. They had, after all, paid as much as $50 to see and hear Jack Benny's violin act which, like his familiar monologues, is a masterpiece of comic tim ing. Benny, 75, and his fiddle have raised well over $5,000,000 at similar benefits, and this one netted...
...even running out of gas. Recently, a Cleveland-bound Wright Air Lines flight out of Detroit barely made it across Lake Erie to a safe if silent emergency landing in a field in Canada; the pilot had neglected to check the fuel before taking off. Denver's Aspen Airways navigates around 14,000-ft. mountain peaks while flying at 13,500 ft. without benefit of cabin pressure or oxygen (except on request). Quite understandably, the line bills itself as "the world's fastest ski lift...
After hearing this story, one of the green recruits, an acidhead who had been sleeping in an aspen grove, sat up and said, "Well, it's time to earn a few more dollars." He rolled over again and earned his next $3.75 by sleeping for an hour...
...fact, forest fires are actually beneficial in a way. They remove the climax vegetation--the tall aspen and spruce--and open up the land for other types of vegetation. Black bears fatten themselves for the winter on blueberries growing in old burns, and other animals also depend on the low shrubs and grasses that can only gain a toehold after a burn...