Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials of the University of Colorado recently suspended publication of the Flatiron, college humor magazine, claiming that it "debases student morals through pointless allusions to sex and alcohol." The suspension order termed the magazine "unworthy of being published under the name of the University of Colorado...
...century-old political parties, the Colorados (Reds) and the Blancos (Whites)* fought it out again at peaceful elections last week, and the neat, sun-warmed little democracy of Uruguay looked as though it had been bombed by a fleet of flying saucers loaded with bingo cards. Every tree, pavement, building, car and lamppost wore a number. Uruguayans do not mind fracturing freely within their traditional parties, and 277 splinter factions were competing for office. Out of deference to the sanity of the Uruguayan voters, they all used numbers instead of names, and politicking became largely a matter of fixing...
...carry Ike and his party to a Thanksgiving holiday* at the Augusta, Ga. National Golf Club. Before takeoff, Mamie Eisenhower christened the new Super-Constellation in a brief ceremony at Washington's National Airport, using, instead of the traditional champagne, a soda bottle full of water from Colorado's north fork of the South Platte River (a favorite presidential trout stream...
...COLORADO Like many plainsmen, Fred Schwartzwalder was enormously impressed when he first saw the Rocky Mountains. That was 30 years ago, after Fred and his young wife Martha moved to Golden, Colo, from the prairies of Iowa. Schwartzwalder fell completely under the spell of the Rockies; every weekend and holiday he spent hiking and exploring the rugged hills around Golden. He often brought home samples of curious rocks to show his wife and to decorate their meager basement apartment. In his backyard a sizable cairn of rock samples gradually accumulated-a monument to Fred Schwartzwalder's ab sorption...
...supply Washington and Oregon with Canadian gas was turned down by the FPC last year (TIME, June 28), hopes to build a pipeline from British Columbia straight through to California, where it will connect with a second line built by Pacific Northwest coming up from New Mexico and Colorado's San Juan field...