Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest problems facing most Governors is the outmoded machinery of state government itself, and in Arkansas, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Iowa, the chief executives called for major changes in basic operating laws. Colorado's Republican John Love, embarking on his second term, decried his state's "crazy-quilt development of overlapping, duplicating, and sometimes competing groups of governmental jurisdictions," warned that it could not sanguinely face the challenges of the future with the "organizational patterns of the 19th century...
...faces the explosive growth that California has experienced. He asked for more and better state and local planning as well as for a department of transportation and an environmental quality commission to make sure that the state does not suffer from sprawl and smog. Love proposed similar action for Colorado, gloomily noting that the present "evidence is that we are in the process of destroying much of our natural environment, busily engaged in building cities that are for all practical purposes unlivable...
Direct contacts on Romney's behalf have been made with Republican leaders in New Hampshire, New York, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Mississippi. The Governor's aides have already made a straw count of convention delegates; they figure that they can now count on some 500 first-ballot votes, while Nixon probably controls around 550 (required for the nomination: 667). They have solicited New York Senator Jacob Javits to suggest a speechwriter. They have borrowed New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's research files from his 1964 attempt to get the nomination...
...Honestly, I couldn't even find a room for my own mother." Said her weary counterpart at rival Vail, Colorado's other big ski resort: "We've had more than 1,000 calls this week asking about possible cancellations...
...case is the hunter who drops his loaded rifle to the ground, and bang! - scratch one hunter. Last fall a nervous Texan tried to club a wounded opossum to death with the butt of his rifle and shot himself in the stomach on the first swing. In October, a Colorado hunter tried to demonstrate a fast draw for the benefit of his buddies, only to discover that his trigger finger was faster than his draw. He drilled a hole right through his foot...