Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of the Interior. But Oregonians were interested in issues, e.g., public power, declining lumber prices, and they re-elected the man who discussed those issues: professorial Democratic Senator Wrayne Morse (who was also pretty good at the country-crossroads campaign once he got the hang of it). In Colorado. Republican Dan Thornton did little besides sashay around in cowboy boots and talk about his (very valid) friendship with Ike. But voters remembered that Texasborn Dan Thornton spends much of his time away from Colorado and that, as governor, he had tried to revise the bookkeeping on Colorado...
Returns trickling in from the Western and Mountain states put the G.O.P. in the lead from the outset in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, New Mexico gave Ike a heavy lead. Even atom-conscious Los Alamos, one place where Stevenson's H-bomb issue might logically have set a fuse, went for Eisenhower...
...Colorado, Two-Time Loser John A. Carroll, 55, whose chances of defeating former Governor Dan Thornton appeared so slim that the Democratic National Com mittee declined to finance his campaign, hung together enough votes to win the Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Eugene Millikin-a seat the Democrats cheerfully accepted as an unexpected gift...
...Colorado, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Stephen McNichols, 41, a successful lawyer and uranium millionaire, safely beat out Don Brotzman, a young (34) state senator and husky handshaker who was counting on-but never could catch-Ike's coattails...
...twelve years. Navy's football team was better than Notre Dame's in virtually every department. The middies smothered the green Irish squad, 33-7. Oklahoma's national champions took a long while to get started in the thin air of Boulder, Colo., finally whipped Colorado, 27-19. Minnesota needed a last-minute field goal to remain undefeated and beat Pitt 9-6. In the Ivy League, Columbia made retiring Coach Lou Little a present of his last home game by upsetting Cornell...