Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange vehicle rolled down Denver's Ivanhoe Street one day last week and pulled to a stop in front of No. 626. It had once been a bus until Mrs. Ellen Harris, G.O.P. candidate for Congress in Colorado's First District, gave it the jawbreaking name of "Congrelephant," and made it over. From the front hung an elephant's trunk spouting smoke. It had a tail and four-foot ears, and big blue eyes were painted on the windshield. To the housewives of Ivanhoe Street, the Congrelephant was not nearly so exciting as a simple black Chrysler...
John Carroll, who still carries the childhood nickname of "Jinx," has been called the most predictable man in Colorado politics (Vice President Nixon last week gave his version of Carroll's predictability by describing him as a "left-winger"). Liberal Carroll has made up his longtime feud with Conservative Ed Johnson, thereby hurdling one of the main obstacles to his election...
Republican Allott is honest and capable, but lacks Carroll's political glamour. He has long been a lone wolf in Colorado politics-e.g., he was the state's only big Stassen supporter in 1952, held out to the bitter...
...Colorado's battle lines are clearly drawn. Said Allott, early in his campaign: "The issue is clearly defined: Do we go back to what we had with Truman, or do we go ahead with Ike?" Carroll accepted Ike as the issue, has attacked the Administration's farm, reclamation and rural electrification policies with considerable effect. With the help he can expect to get from Big Ed Johnson, who is a shoo-in for governor, Jinx Carroll should live up to his nickname as far as Allott is concerned...
...back in 1949, as every good Communist knows, that those wicked Americans dropped the first Colorado beetles on Czechoslovakia's burgeoning potato fields. The diligent, hardheaded commissars of Horazdovice district were not panicked by the sly American trick. At the first notice of potato bugs in their district, they sent for a young local plant pathologist named Cestmir Novacek and ordered him to liquidate the nasty, crawling little capitalists. For five years everything went fine, and the "invasion" took little toll of Horazdovice's potatoes. This year, however, the potato harvest in the Pilsen area was a bust...