Word: colorado
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Despite ultimate conquest by Rome, and later by the Turks, who ruled Rumania with Ottoman harshness for 400 years, the Colorado-size enclave retained its sense of separateness. Rumanians speak a lilting, Latinate language that sets them apart from neighboring vowel-deficient Slavs; though they say da for yes, they say bunā seara for good evening. Bloodied by the Central Powers in World War I, Rumania emerged into the modern world as a reactionary monarchy, sided with Nazi Germany during World War II; its fascist Iron Guard proved just as murderous and anti-Semitic...
...skater was still waiting her turn: Peggy Fleming, 17, a diminutive (5 ft. 4 in., 108 lbs.) high school senior from Colorado Springs. Shy and a homebody, daughter of an itinerant newspaper pressman, Peggy did not even learn to skate until she was nine. When she won her first (of three) U.S. championship in 1964, experts were as impressed by her girlish grace and pleasant looks as by her acrobatics and technique. "Peggy is not a fiery skater," said Dick Button. "She is a delicate lady on the ice." And at Davos, it figured to take more than delicacy...
Paced by Jon Chaffe's second place finish, the Nordic team captured fourth place and an additional 92.16 points in the cross-country event. Chaffe's race earned him an invitation to compete as an individual in the NCAA meet at Crested Butte, Colorado...
...freedom. "The old system," argues a Yale student, "was an insult to the secondary education system and to the kind of student who gets into Yale." Jean Basehore, studying independently at Allegheny, finds that "now I'm reading more, pushing myself more to satisfy my own curiosity." Colorado College's Faith Hughes contends that "If I dig things out myself, I understand them better...
What the public wants, say the educators, is a more abundant supply of family doctors-"generalists," as some G.P.s style themselves. And what the public needs, say the educators, are G.P.s with a difference. "The average G.P.," says Dr. Ward Darley, former dean at the University of Colorado, "is trying to see 50 to 60 patients a day and do surgery as well. That's no way to practice medicine today." What Dr. Darley hopes to see is a specialist in family medicine who will drop surgery and concentrate on the general aspects of psychiatry, pediatrics, and internal...