Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around its perimeter for 4,853 sq. mi.-more than three times the size of Rhode Island-overreaching Los Angeles County, enveloping adjacent Orange County to the south. It is the nation's fastest-growing megalopolis, with a population (6,000,000) exceeding that of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada combined. And, like an energized amoeba, it is bewilderingly fertile...
...first time since she was twelve. With her father, Swedish-born Neurosurgeon Peter Lindstrom, she will fly to Stockholm, later travel alone to Paris, where Ingrid is starring in Tea and Sympathy, return to the U.S. in time to start her sophomore year at the University of Colorado. Brushing aside rumors of a cool relationship with Ingrid, Jennie said she expects a "wonderful reunion" with mamma...
...When the Colorado State Athletic Commission decided to allow Lightweight Champion Joe Brown and Challenger Orlando Zulueta to use 6-oz. instead of 8-oz. gloves for their title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...
...yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across the enormous man-made lakes formed by dam projects in the Tennessee Valley, the Colorado and Missouri Rivers. Says one deep-water sailor: "Thousands of farm families, who wouldn't know an auxiliary cutter from a lightship, are literally sailing over the bounding prairie -and loving every minute...
...bread-and-butter issue with ideological overtones, the house of delegates stood pat. Colorado physicians had asked the house to take a strong stand against physicians' working for salaries (paid by hospitals or group-care plans, including some sponsored by labor unions), and letting an administrator fix the patients' fees. With a growing number of doctors (40%, according to some estimates) now on full-or part-time salary, and with the mushrooming of medical-care plans that introduce a "third party" between the insured and his doctor, the irritation in many medical circles has become acute. Proponents...