Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several shades tanner and half an inch slimmer in the waist than when he left Washington six weeks before, the President was "delighted" with his stay in Colorado and, according to his physician, "never felt better." But his vacation had been only a partial escape from the cares and chores of office. During the six weeks, he received 152 official visitors, signed 111 bills and 318 other state documents...
...TIME reporter who has been covering one of the most famous vacations of 1953 is Ed Darby, our White House correspondent, assigned to report on President Eisenhower's vacation in Colorado. I asked Darby to tell us about his working holiday, and he sent me the following reply...
...gloom, I had been standing about a pace from the President, almost shouting in his face. Colorado Governor Dan Thornton, who was playing with the President that day, found Granby for me while the President and I chatted. Or, rather, the President talked and I gulped, trying to think of just how you go about apologizing for shouting in the President's face. The President allowed that it was great weather, that the course was in fine shape and that his game was going pretty well ('I got a birdie on the first hole this morning...
...usual crews of laborers were two men equipped with some unusual tools-archaeologists' spades, trowels, notebooks, cameras, maps and paper bags. They were part of a larger team of archaeologists who will walk some 1,000 miles of the pipeline's right of way (including spurs in Colorado and Utah), scanning the surface for telltale signs of ancient Indian ruins before the bulldozers go to work. After the digging has started, they will retrace their steps to see what is found. Sponsor and paymaster of the expedition: El Paso Natural...
Under Wraps. Colorado-born Harold Walter went into the textile business 30 years ago against his better judgment. After graduating from the University of Colorado (21), he wanted to go into the packing business with his father, but his fiancée brought him to New England instead, to work for her father, general manager and half-owner of what was then called the Uxbridge Worsted Co. Having married the boss's daughter, Walter took a job as apprentice mill hand on a one-year trial, liked it so well that he stayed on. He advanced to overseer, superintendent...