Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million acres of National Forest into a new preserve system, authorize the President to add up to 54 million more acres of public land over ten years. The Senate also passed the wilderness bill in 1961, but it was bottled up in the House Interior Committee, headed by Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall. Aspinall opposes the bill again this year...
Almost anywhere in the U.S., the prospect of a new $5,000,000 college would bring nothing but cheers. Not in Colorado Springs, Colo. Last week businessmen in the pine-covered foothills of the Rockies were bitterly divided over the proposed construction of an institution to be called Rampart College. The school, complained one director of the Chamber of Commerce, would be about as welcome in Colorado Springs as "a skunk at a family picnic...
...years the Senate has passed the Wilderness Bill by a huge majority. In the House the bill is now under scrutiny again by the Interior Committee which finally sent to the floor last year an amended version that was more like a poaching permit than a wilderness preservation act. Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall, committee chairman and leader of the opposition insists that the bill would "lock up" valuable commercial tracts and jeopardize Congressional authority over Federal lands. The first charge is both pernicious and absurd; the other is merely absurd...
WILLIAM MAROLT. 19. of Aspen. Colo., was the surprising youngster who beat both Werner and Minsch in Alaska by streaking over Mount Alyeska's 8.440-ft. downhill course at a speed of 44.7 m.p.h. Son of a bartender. Bill is a University of Colorado sophomore and the best new downhill prospect...
Smoldering Decay. Joanne Greenberg. a Colorado housewife and part-time medievalist, spent five years digging into the historical records on the York slaughter for her first novel. The result is a fascinating and minute examination of 12th century English life. The feudal structure was beginning to decay. Paranoid religious fanaticism sapped the strength of the monastic community, and the power of the baronies was gradually being clipped by the Crown. Lack of funds postponed the start of the Third Crusade, which was expected to revive both faith and the church's fortune. As setback piled on setback, the smoldering...