Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rule of Thumb. In Albuquerque, John Murry explained to a U.S. district judge that he had stolen a car to make the journey from Durango, Colo, to Aztec, N. Mex., because "you can't hitchhike in the state of Colorado...
...BLARE of bands and crackling orders shattered the pineland quiet near Colorado Springs. The giant $133 million motel-like complex of aluminum and glass was ready at last. Into the U.S. Air Force Academy marched 1,148 cadets to face a tough, four-year program with the broadest curriculum yet devised for future U.S. military leaders. For news of their first days, their curious customs, and lingo as well, see EDUCATION, Home of the Doolies...
...stern of the Navy crash boat Queen Six, trolled for eight hours one day last week southwest of Newport. R.I. A novice in the sedentary sport of deep-sea fishing, he obviously missed the dry-fly casting in the frowned-upon (because of his heart) altitudes of Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided...
...ornate complex of glass and aluminum buildings stood all but deserted in the pine-covered heights of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, like a giant motel that was somehow mistakenly plopped down in a forest. Here and there a lonely figure in khakis scurried across the shimmering terrazzo courtyards and disappeared into a wall of glass. Then suddenly, into the woodland slumber burst the sound of a brass band and the clack-clack of boot-steps-and up the ramp into the spacious grounds marched 450 men, battlegarbed in steel helmets and full field packs. Their young faces were almost...
...York-born author worked in one too). There is flighty April Morrison a little breath of bedspring from Colorado, done in by a dastard who tools a white Jaguar. He refuses to marry her, but-Author Jaffe admits New York men are not wholly vile-he recognizes that there are some occasions on which a Jaguar is not proper. He shows up to escort April to the New Jersey abortionist in a rented, chauffeured Cadillac...