Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montreal Correspondent Byron Riggan made the first visit of any reporter to the Mid-Canada line. Other TIME Correspondents visited DEW line sites in Alaska, interceptor bases, Nike batteries and lonely aircraft control and warning stations from Cape Cod to Southern California, and interviewed NORAD's commanders at Colorado Springs. See SCIENCE, NORAD: Defense of a Continent...
Nerve center of the system is Ent Air Force Base (named for the late Major General Uzal G. Ent) in Colorado Springs, where some 700 Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corp officers and 1,500 enlisted men, along with about 40 Canadians, work in a precisely knit NORAD command under General Partridge and his Canadian deputy, Air Marshal C. (for Charles) Roy Slemon. In a two-story, windowless operations center at Ent, a ganglion of more than 600 miles of electronic communications wire feeds information to markers of huge Plexiglas plotting boards, which show the air situation over every...
Last year, McVey, second-highest team scorer and center on the second line, was named to the All-Ivy hockey squad and was the only native American on the second All-American team at Colorado...
Some eight months ago, the varsity hockey team was sitting around the spacious dinner table at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. They had just lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to Clarkson in double overtime to finish last in the NCAA hockey tournament. "If we had had a harder schedule this year," the tenor of conversation ran, "we wouldn't have lost this game. Something has to be done...
...western trip should furnish invaluable experience for the sextet, as the hockey out there is even more Canadian and of a much higher caliber than in the East. The Crimson will be looking for revenge against Michigan, who beat them in the Colorado tournament last year...