Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Party is not moderately for labor, not moderately for the small businessman, not moderately for any one such group. We are for them all the way." "Heartsick Ashamed." By week's end, the Harriman cry had been taken up by some other important Democrats. At a Colorado Young Democrats dinner in Denver, Michigan's ambitious, bow-tied Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams devoted nearly all of a bitterly worded speech to an attack on moderation. Said Soapy: "In candor, I must say that I was acutely disappointed by the 'spirit of Chicago,' the spirit...
Last week Paul Kayser increased his prehumous momentum. The Federal Power Commission authorized El Paso to go into a $194 million expansion program, including construction of a 413-mile pipeline from Colorado and New Mexico's San Juan Basin to the Arizona-California border. The program will increase the El Paso system deliveries by 455,175,000 cu. ft. of natural gas a day to serve more customers in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. Part of the gas will come indirectly from Canada, through a deal (also authorized by FPC last week) in which Westcoast Transmission...
Kayser grew worried about his men hunting gas on the Colorado Plateau while everyone else was panting after uranium. '' "If you didn't want them to get the fever," says Kayser, "you inoculated them with a little of it." The inoculation consisted, of forming a new company, Rare Metals Corp. of America, 55% owned by El Paso, 18% by Western Natural Gas Co. (an I affiliate) and 27% by officers and employees of the companies. Rare Metals opened a mercury plant in Idaho this fall and will have a reduction mill finished in Arizona late next spring...
FRANCIS G. YATES Colorado Springs, Colo...
...acting, she now recalls, made up for everything: bird-legs, teeth braces and no beaux. "The only boys who liked me were characters -you know, intelligent. I wanted one like Robert Taylor." At 16 she heard about an acting camp in Colorado run by Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield, and there was no holding her. For three summers in a row she ran off with almost all the best parts. "At night I dreamed about being a great star like Bernhardt," she says. Nor was Bernhardt enough in those days; she also intended to be Pavlova. Her family had taken...