Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting coincidence that of the people I've come into contact with in my travels, the one who is most like Bill and Charlie also ventured in and out of Reno to find his fortune. I was hitching to the West Coast and had made it as far as Colorado. Outside Rocky Mountain National Park I and two other hitchers were picked up by a husky dark-skinned man who said he wasn't sure but he thought he might be going to San Francisco, 1200 miles away. As we drove during the day and into the night, through western...
...unfolding highway. The movie's obtrusive sense of present, constructed from the fast win and fast loss, the tension of a big money poker game, the green felt of a Reno crap table, a bowl of Fruit Loops for breakfast, flashes by with the same dreamy transcience as Colorado mountains, Utah salt flats, Nevada deserts, and California farms outside a car window...
Almost nobody had a harsh word to say about Gerald Ford. Senator Charles Percy of Illinois spoke of Ford's ability to work smoothly with Congress; Senator Alan Cranston, the California Democrat, noted Ford's ability "to reach out, to consult and to conciliate." From the Colorado Rockies where he was vacationing, former Kansas Governor Alf Landon, the Republican presidential candidate of 1936, watched Ford's performance and was impressed "with the promptness with which he is making his decisions; he's going about his job without hesitation or delay...
...Arizona's first Republican member of the House of Representatives, and he has been there ever since. He has held important posts on the Appropriations and Republican Policy Committees, and he has worked hard, as befits an Arizona Congressman, to secure for his state a larger share of Colorado River water...
...rush to exploit new or neglected energy sources is transforming the ranching economy of the whole Rocky Mountain region. In Montana, a $700 million electric generating complex is being built to convert local coal into power for the Pacific Northwest. In Colorado, a consortium of twelve companies is experimenting with ways to tap the oil and gas held in the state's vast shale deposits. In Utah, the leasing of shale lands has pumped $120 million into the state's coffers. But it is in Wyoming, where the antelope still play beside highways, that the changes are most...