Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny transistor radios and huge hydroelectric generators, last week gave the U.S. electrical industry a stinging lesson in how to get U.S. Government contracts. Hitachi won a $612,659 contract to build two 4,500-h.p. hydraulic turbines for the Interior Department's Blue Mesa power plant in Colorado, and another $3,221,813 contract to supply eight pump turbines for a federal reclamation project in California's San Joaquin valley. It won the awards simply because its bids ranged from 5% to 41% lower than those of such competing U.S. giants as Allis-Chalmers and Newport News...
...attack; in Washington. Devoted to the task of getting federal funds for his water-short state, roughly a third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed aid through Congress - $1 billion this year alone - to rechannel the Rio Grande and, among other things, to bring water from the Colorado River to create new Navajo farm land. To his responsive voters, Chavez always could say: "Soy uno de ustedes," meaning...
...legislature should be apportioned. In West Virginia and Oregon, the voters turned down proposals that would have fortified the representation of the country areas against the steadily growing demands of the city dwellers. Maryland, Florida and California proposals to give more heft to the cities were defeated. Colorado struck a classic compromise, approved a plan that set a fixed size for the senate while guaranteeing that the house be reapportioned regularly on a strict population basis...
Slimming Down. In Nebraska. Colorado and North Carolina, voters approved plans to trim the gingerbread off woefully rococo judicial systems. North Carolina's Governor Terry Sanford led his state's fight for court reform, declared that the present system contains "glaring evils"-among them, the fact that most of the nearly 900 justices of the peace get no pay for hearing a case unless they convict the defendant...
Behind the G.O.P. victories in Colorado were Denver Adman Jean K. Tool, 43, who took over as state chairman two years ago, and Robert E. Lee, a backroom pro who heads the Denver party organization. Between them, they replaced 40% of the county chairmen, cut the average age of district captains from the 70s to the 40s, raised money for a radio and television blitz-and produced two of the most attractive candidates anywhere. They were Lawyer John Love, 45, for Governor, and Representative Peter Dominick, 47, for the Senate...