Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kansas-born Patton is the son of an engineer who helped found a short-lived cooperative farm at Nucla, Colo. Jim worked on farms, took odd jobs to earn extra money, paid his way through Western State College of Colorado, wound up with a Depression-days job selling typewriters. "Jim was a terrific salesman," says a longtime acquaintance. "He has always had a tendency for main-chancing...
...Colorado's Republican Senator GORDON ALLOTT...
...Colorado farm town of Longmont (pop. 14,500), as in most such places in the U.S. farm belts, Saturday night used to be the liveliest night of the week, as farm families drove into town for the week's big ritual: shopping and gossiping...
...Rapid Transit Company. Jack Dempsey moved west, served New Mexico in the U.S. Congress from 1935 to 1941, again since 1951, last month pushed through an amendment that calls for the immediate beginning of construction on one of his pet projects: the $37 million Navajo Dam in the Upper Colorado Basin...
Married. General Earle Everard Partridge, U.S.A.F., 57, commander of the North American Air Defense Command; and Elizabeth Strong Cowles, 41, alpinist, member of the 1950 American expedition to Mt. Everest; both for the second time; in Colorado Springs...