Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There he became impressed with McGoven's 35-year-old campaign manager, Gary Hart, who was to be elected Senator from Colorado two year later...
...Mayo, a waitress at the airport restaurant, was on her way to work when she saw the plane dropping its bomb. "When I arrived at the airport a few minutes later," she said, "the terminal building was covered with flames and many people were fleeing." Senators Gary Hart of Colorado and William Cohen of Maine were about to arrive in Managua for talks with Sandinista officials when the attack began. Their U.S. Air Force C140 transport was ordered into a holding pattern and then diverted to Honduras. The Senators arrived in Managua later in the day and surveyed the damaged...
Three seniors from last year's team donned skates at June's National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, but no Olympic bids materialized for Greg Olson. Greg Britz or Neil Sheehy. The last two are now taking shots at the pros. Britz is chasing pucks at training camp for the Toronto Maple Leafs this week. while defenseman Sheehy, who has already signed a contract, hopes to crack the lineup of the Calgary Flames, a club conveniently short of blueliners. The NHL took an active interest in two other Crimson pucksters in the June amatcut draft Philadelphia took the rights...
These are the extremes of adventuring, but people who consider themselves ordinary are doing things that would have been thought outlandish ten years ago. Rafting the Colorado River now seems almost sedentary, and trekking in the Himalayas is no more than an extended outing. Sane and prudent citizens sign up for ice-climbing lessons and for bicycle tours across China. Your neighbor's teen-ager hang-glides. It is hardly worth mentioning when a 50-year-old man or woman runs a marathon, although the triathlon, which may consist of a long swim, a bike race and a complete...
...novel about a 34-year-old baseball player who finally makes it to the big leagues during the 1930s. Like Scheider, maybe like every American male, Redford is glad to have a chance to explore an unlived fantasy. He had planned to be a ballplayer at the University of Colorado, but, Redford recalls, "I went there on a half scholarship and proceeded to get sidetracked...