Word: colorado
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Among the state officials who benefited: Alton G. Marshall, Rockefeller's executive officer and secretary when Rocky was Governor, and later president of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, $306,867; James W. Gaynor, whom Rockefeller attracted to New York from Colorado to become state commissioner of housing and community renewal, $107,000; Henry L. Diamond, a conservation and ecology expert, head of the Department of Environmental Conservation under Rocky and now executive director of his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, $100,006; Victor Borella, a special assistant on labor issues in Rockefeller's administration, $100,000; Hugh Morrow...
...could lose up to 22 of their 69 congressional seats-as many as six in the bastions of Nebraska and Iowa. In the 13 Western states, the Democrats should pick up at least five and perhaps as many as eleven congressional seats. The most interesting Senate fight is in Colorado, where Democrat Gary Hart, 36, George McGovern's presidential campaign manager in 1972, is trying to link conservative G.O.P. Senator Peter Dominick, 59, to some of the tainted milk money collected for President Nixon's reelection...
...being a congressional husband can involve considerable sacrifice. Like other lawyers in his position, Hicks Griffiths, whose wife Martha is retiring this year after 20 years as a Democratic Congresswoman from Michigan, will not handle cases involving federal agencies. When Patricia Schroeder, 34, was elected to Congress from Colorado in 1972, her husband James had to settle for a 50% reduction in his income to join a Washington law firm as a limited partner...
...questionable that he would defeat Gerald Ford in 1976-unless the President stumbled badly, particularly in handling the economy. Already, some of the Kennedy allure had been lost; several Democratic candidates had suggested that they did not want Kennedy's campaign help this year. Said Monte Pascoe, Colorado state Democratic chairman, about Kennedy's withdrawal: "It was a healthy thing for the party...
Centennial is intended as Michener's 200th-birthday present to the U.S. His setting is a small, fictional town, first called Zendt's Farm, then Centennial, on the eastern slope of the Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around the South Platte as a means of describing nothing less than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references...