Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Approved by voice vote and sent to the House an Administration-backed bill authorizing construction of the $156 million Fryingpan-Arkansas project in Colorado. The project would funnel water from the Colorado River basin through the Continental Divide into the Arkansas River basin, where more water is badly needed for power and irrigation purposes...
...Colorado (20) : Delegates to be selected July 20. Until then, Colorado is a happy hunting ground...
...Daniel Webster, achieved an easy lyrical style which has kept it alive in repertory as an authentic domestic classic. For his fourth opera, premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner ("HAW") Tabor and his blonde bride from Wisconsin, Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby") Doe. The opera's title: The Ballad of Baby...
...This dramatic story," says Composer Moore, "makes an ideal outline for an opera libretto." He is right. Born in Vermont in 1830, HAW Tabor caught the gold fever early, wandered with his wife Augusta to Colorado, and for 20 years alternated storekeeping and prospecting. He made his big strike at Leadville when he was 47; within a year he was a millionaire. To help celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor...
Leaving nothing to chance, Republican National Committee Chairman Len Hall this week will open a farm-belt campaign office in Chicago. Under Colorado's former Governor Dan Thornton, the office will send squads of campaigners into the Midwestern states to beat the drums for the G.O.P. If they get a chance to use their umbrellas, so much the better...