Word: colorado
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Anne Sullivan and Paula Newnham, Harvard's women's cross country aces, experienced the difficulties of competition at high altitudes Saturday while competing in the women's national cross country championships at Denver, Colorado...
Defending champion lowa State captured its fourth consecutive team crown while host University of Colorado's Mary Decker took the individual honors. Ivy-rival Princeton finished 12th in the team standings while the University of Maryland, which tied Harvard last week at the Eastern championships, grabbed ninth...
...with Congress will undoubtedly be increased by the rightward shift among the incoming legislators. Again, the numbers are less important than the individual changes. The President lost five key liberal supporters in the Senate: Clark of Iowa, Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire, William Hathaway of Maine, Floyd Haskell of Colorado, Wendell Anderson of Minnesota. As head of the African Affairs Subcommittee, Clark was a strong backer of the Administration's policy of pressuring the white powers in southern Africa to grant black majority rule. He was defeated by Conservative...
...conservative Republicans, on the other hand, have been strengthened in Congress, especially in the Senate. Some new right-wingers (Mississippi's Thad Cochran, Colorado's Bill Armstrong, Jepsen and Humphrey) have swelled the ranks of the old (North Carolina's Jesse Helms, Idaho's James McClure, Texas' John Tower and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond). With the defeat of Edward Brooke in Massachusetts, the Senate's only black, the waning power of the liberal Republicans has been reduced even further. Their only gain is Bill Cohen, who was elected in Maine. Led by Nevada's Paul Laxalt, the conservatives have...
This conservative leaning was apparent in most of the other Western races in which offices changed hands. In Colorado, Republican Congressman William Armstrong denied Democrat Floyd Haskell a second term in the Senate. Compared with the vigorous Armstrong, the courtly, soft-spoken Haskell sounded unconvincing when he vowed to fight inflation and cut taxes. Similar issues in Nevada buried Lieutenant Governor Robert Rose, who tried to keep the governorship in Democratic hands after Incumbent Mike O'Callaghan retires at year's end. Republican Attorney General Robert List handily defeated Rose, again by calling for tax cuts...