Word: colorado
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...like the ones you occasionally see in the Square, big cartoons of strong men smashing the state. Pennants carried the One Big Union legend; there were no lapel pins, no sterling silver. Even the leaders were just old organizers; Haywood had learned how to blow up mines during the Colorado copper strikes of the 19th century, Mother Jones was a legend everyplace men went underground, trusting their lives to rotting timbers. In the Pacific Northwest, where the IWW enrolled almost every lumberjack, Wobblie Iry Hansen says, "The lumber companies were all so worried about those little people that were...
...cannot label Gary Hart," boasts an ebullient supporter of the Democratic Senator from Colorado. Indeed, Hart first achieved national prominence as the manager of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. But then Hart won election to the Senate in 1974, with 59% of the vote, and quickly established himself as neither liberal nor conservative on key issues. For instance, he favors increasing the Pentagon budget, especially for more small ships and more fighter-bombers that can operate from small airfields. He also backs nuclear plants, though he thinks that atomic power will eventually be abandoned as too expensive...
...Colorado voters this year are leaning heavily toward Ronald Reagan, and the Senator's Republican opponent is no ordinary politician. At 22, Mary Estill Buchanan was widowed, gave birth to her second child and graduated from Wellesley College, all within twelve months. The petite Buchanan (5 ft. 2 in.) went on to Harvard Business School (M.B.A. '62), a career as a labor-management consultant, a second marriage and four more children before her divorce...
...recognition of fundamental cravings. Typically, McPhee works from the sidelines, bending his style to any angle or knot that might suit his subject: in one piece, the raging differences between conservationists and the Federal government are tightly defined when McPhee boards a rubber raft headed down the Colorado along with Friends of the Earth founder Dave Brower and the U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation: "'Come on now, Dave, be honest' (the Commissioner) said. 'From a conservationist's point of view, what is the best source of electric power?' 'Flashlight batteries,' Brower said...
...great American oil discoveries. The output of oil, or an equivalent amount of gas, discovered in new wildcats has declined from more than 350 bbl. per ft. of drilling in the late 1940s to less than 50 bbl. per ft. today. Says John D. Haun, petroleum geologist at the Colorado School of Mines: "We will have to drill many more wildcat wells to come close to finding as much oil as we found in the last decade...