Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the cadets were hastily building traditions, politicians in Washington were lustily attacking the anything-but-traditional buildings planned for the new Air Force Academy campus at Colorado Springs. Sensitive to the fact that glass, steel and aluminum were the key materials in Air Force blueprints, Democratic Congressman John Fogarty (onetime president of Rhode Island's Bricklayers Union No.1) roared: "Glass and metal are alien to American monumental design-even to European." Picking up his lead, spokesmen for pressure groups, including the Allied Masonry Council, representing brick, limestone and marble companies and for the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers...
Mass Migration. Ever since the Spaniards first explored the region in the 16th century, man has been able to promote a cautious friendship with the great deserts of the Southwest. Springs and river water from the Colorado, Mojave,* Verde, Salt and Gila gave rise to settlements and small farming districts. Deep wells supported a slowly growing population, clustered along well-traveled desert highways in a few centers-Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Barstow. In the mountains, miners hammered away at sun-baked mineral vaults, and on the sandy desert floor men learned to irrigate and raise truck crops, cotton, dates...
...interfaith chapel of the U.S. Air Force Academy, to be constructed outside Colorado Springs, Colo., was designed, said its architects, to dominate the entire academy. After the U.S. public saw pictures of preliminary models-the chapel looked like a cross between an accordion and a caterpillar (TIME, May 23)-it became obvious that the building would also dominate the controversy over the academy's ultramodern architecture...
...ugly duckling," said Colorado's Governor Edwin C. Johnson. Virginia's Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson described it as "looking like nothing so much as an assembly of wigwams." Sketches of the chapel, said Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, should be studied for ten years and then thrown away...
...Casey") Vincent, 40, operations officer of the Continental Air Defense Command, World War II ace (16 Jap planes), and winner of the Silver Star and D.F.C. for his exploits as General Claire Chennault's operations officer and deputy chief of staff in the China-Burma-India theater; in Colorado Springs. West Pointer Vincent was the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates, became (at 29) one of the youngest general officers in Army history...