Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesser-known members of Nixon's Watergate crew, prison and penury have been the most painful problems. After seven months in prison, former Mitchell Deputy Jeb Stuart Magruder is employed as vice president of a religious foundation in Colorado Springs at half his former $36,000 Government salary. Egil ("Bud") Krogh has been hired as an assistant to Republican Congressman Peter McCloskey of California at $16,000; he drew $40,000 in Nixon's Transportation Department...
VANCE D. BRAND, 44, the blond, boyish-looking command-module pilot, is the quiet man of the American crew. A former Marine Corps and civilian test pilot with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado, he joined the astronaut corps in 1966, and was a back-up crewman for several moon flights and Skylab. One of the pluses of being involved in the joint flight, says Brand, is "having an opportunity to see how another culture operates." Among ins discoveries: spacemen are far better known in Russia than in the U.S. Not much interested in publicity inmself...
...week California state legislators voted to do away with formal booking procedures, jail penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however, the sale of marijuana remains a crime...
...many pop stars, he is wildly generous with those who have demonstrated their loyalty to him (see box page 40). Not that he stints on himself; he bops constantly from his home in suburban London to his home in Los Angeles, with regular stopovers at the Caribou Ranch in Colorado, where he likes to record, and another sort of ranch in Scottsdale, Ariz. There he concentrates on his tennis, a game chubby little boys can feel ridiculous playing but that the superstar plays with confidence, sometimes with Billie Jean King or Jimmy Connors. In England he lives in the affluent...
Died. James Phinney Baxter, 82, president of Williams College from 1937 to 1961; in Williamstown, Mass. A 1914 Williams graduate, Maine-born Baxter headed for Wall Street but, after a bout with tuberculosis, turned to teaching history, first at Colorado College, later at Harvard. Brought to Williams as president in 1937, he transformed the college over the next 24 years from an undemanding educational country club where the average grade was D + to a serious meritocracy by increasing scholarship aid, strengthening the faculty and quadrupling the academic budget. During World War II he was historian for the Office of Scientific...