Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running count of convention delegates was kept. Mary Jo joined three other young women in renting a small Georgetown house on Olive Street. Though bright, blonde and at least conventionally pretty, she had little social life outside of the office. Michael Dinunzio, who later worked with her in a Colorado Senate campaign, recalled: "She had no plans for marriage. Her total life was politics." He could not remember her having a date over a period of six months...
...Olympic pole-vault champ and Wheaties pitchman is jogging and biking 3,000 miles across the U.S. in a one-man campaign "to get Americans off their duffs," as he puts it, and impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says he, "I talk about America-about strength, courage, challenge, clean living, faith, the American dream...
...COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Mary Rippon Theater, Boulder (Aug. 1-17). Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and Henry VI (Part...
...think that it will inevitably exact a toll of man. The National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., has produced evidence incriminating DDT and related pesticides as the cause of tumors of the liver and lungs in mice. When men are consistently exposed to such chemicals, adds the University of Colorado's Dr. David R. Metcalf, there is deterioration of memory and reaction time...
Hispano: descendant of the original Spanish settlers of areas now part of the U.S. Used chiefly in New Mexico and Colorado to distinguish such Spanish-speaking Americans from later immigrants of Indian descent...