Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trolling tirelessly for support, White House-bent Senator Estes Kefauver switched from coonskins to Tennessee catfish, invited the Senate and the entire Capitol press corps to a fried catfish and hushpuppy lunch. Gimmick: two days later the statesmen and newsbeagles will chomp mountain trout as guests of Colorado's Democratic Senator John A. Carroll, vote to decide which fish is tastier. Not invited to the fish fries "due to the doctrine of separation of power": Trout Fisherman Dwight Eisenhower...
...Pearl Harbor attack from the north. At the same time, Washington and Ottawa announced that the two nations' air forces would form a joint command (ADCANUS) for continental defense. ADCANUS will be commanded by Air Force General Earle E. Partridge at the U.S. air-defense center at Colorado Springs, Colo. Its deputy commander in chief: Air Marshal Roy Slemon, until now Canada's chief of air staff...
Under a blazing sun, the governors of Colorado and Utah last week took part in a historic ceremony: the opening of the first privately financed U.S. plant to make gasoline in quantity from a solid hydrocarbon. The place: American Gilsonite Co.'s new $14 million refinery outside Grand Junction, Colo. There, as Colorado's Steven L. R. McNichols and Utah's George Dewey Clyde each pulled a handle, water gushed from a pipeline, turned black with particles of Gilsonite...
Everything Pat knows of professional singing she learned from listening to records on a battered portable phonograph. The California-born daughter of a Japanese farmer (almonds, grapes and peaches), she passed the war years in a detention camp in Colorado, graduated from California's San Jose State College and lit out for New York and (she hoped) Europe before settling for a teaching career. In Manhattan her money dribbled away. To pay the rent Pat was willing to try anything, landed a walk-on spot in the road company of Teahouse of the August Moon. Cast members heard...
...state laws are virtually identical with the British, but interpretations differ. Three states (Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico) and the District of Columbia also permit abortions to protect the woman's health...