Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tide poured into Mercedes and Harlingen, where a Spanish-speaking radio station ominously warned: "Get the lame, blind and old people to high land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate Arroyo Colorado became a conduit delivering the full fury of the flood. Beulah had closed the highways north; southward seethed the Rio Grande; eastward lay the Gulf, and in from the west swept the flood. Harlingen was trapped...
...keep open the possibility that the races of man can be intellectually ranked. To Curt Stern, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley, it seems unreasonable to conclude that "because there is no evidence of inherent inequalities, the situation couldn't exist." Says University of Colorado Anthropologist John Greenway: "I would not want to say that an Australian Aborigine is dumber than I am, because there is no way to tell. In their noncompetitive society there is no way to make any tests and hence no way to make comparisons. We don't know what...
...Tire & Rubber Co. is converting its onetime cotton farm outside Phoenix, Ariz., into Litchfield Park, a planned town for 100,000. McCulloch Oil Corp. has attracted more than 2,500 settlers to its resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City in the sparsely inhabited Arizona desert along the Colorado River. Humble Oil's Clear Lake City, which is on 23,000 acres of oil and gas-bearing grassland near Houston, shows promise of success after suffering some fumbles at the outset. Against more difficult odds because of recent costly land acquisitions, Shipping Tycoon Daniel Ludwig's Westlake...
...Colorado (where marijuana sale can constitute a capital offense), Rhode Island, and Oregon, have had similar test cases. A Rhode Island state court is still considering the issue. In the other two states the statutes were upheld...
Definitely, says Horace E. Campbell, 68, a Denver surgeon and chairman of the Colorado Medical Society's Auto motive Safety Committee. Campbell, writing in the A.M.A. Journal, cites one study showing that 73% of the driv ers held responsible for fatal or dis abling car crashes had been drinking enough to raise their alcohol level to more than .20% before the accidents occurred. Earlier, the Journal had pub lished a study of 83 drivers killed in single-car crashes in New York's Westchester County. Of the 83, 49% had had blood alcohol levels of .15% when they...