Word: colo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canon City (Eagle Lion). Last winter, in the most sensational jailbreak of the year, twelve more or less desperate convicts escaped from the state penitentiary at Canon City, Colo. Within three days they were all either recaptured or killed (TIME, Jan. 12). This was a subject for a first-rate movie. Canon City is not that good, but it is exciting, intelligent and unpretentious. It begins as a straight documentary, presented with gratifying simplicity and quietness, then gently eases in among the professional players, who re-enact the break and the man hunt...
...height of his fame, he went to Eldorado Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...
...Holding a 50-year-old pistol in both hands to steady it, Ezekiel Brown, 74, of Colorado Springs, Colo. fired two slugs into a neighbor (after a back-fence quarrel) but failed to kill him. In jail the creaky gunman bitterly told police: "My eyesight ain't what it used...
...More Questions? In London, ten-year-old Roy Scott asked his mother: "What's a thunderbolt?", got the answer as one hit the roof with a blinding flash. In Montrose, Colo., lightning knocked down Austin Baca, who arose just before a second bolt knocked him down again...
...preparation for the tourist season, Pueblo, Colo, was shopping around for Indians who would come to Pueblo, spend their time "colorfully wandering around the town concentrating on nothing but being Indians...