Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colorado is a state of vivid, sometimes startling, contrasts. Thousands of miles of its flatlands are rich with the emerald green of winter-wheat shoots; other thousands of miles are pasture, dotted with grazing cattle. But the western half of the state is ruggedly mountainous, the steep slopes necked with aspen and capped with snow. Colorado is a land of mining ghost towns and booming oil, gas, missile and atom-research centers. Men in cow boy boots and ten-gallon hats still swing off the cattle trains; but now other men, in Brooks Brothers suits, stride purposefully down the ramps...
...rises as a cold, clear mountain torrent in Colorado. It dwindles and almost dies while crossing the Kansas plains. Fed by tributaries, it meanders in great twists and turns through Oklahoma and Arkansas. It is one of America's muddiest rivers. Because of its sewage, silt and salt, the water is not fit for swimming, drinking or irrigation. In fact, the 1,450-mile Arkansas River is good only for the huge channel catfish, which have literally pulled fishermen into its muck...
Died. Lieut. General Henry Louis Larsen, 71. a burly, well-decorated (two Navy Crosses, three Silver Stars), leatherneck who fought in virtually every Marine campaign from Belleau Wood to Guadalcanal, wound up in command of all Marine forces in the Pacific and then retired in 1946 to direct Colorado's civil defense; of a heart attack; in Denver...
...Father Urban plays a nearly professional game of golf, drinks only the best Scotch and smokes Dunhill Monte Cristo Colorado Maduro No. 1's, and if he is seen frequently in expensive restaurants with men whose grain is coarse although their shirts be fine, it must not be thought that he loves the world too well. His is not a case of "Hail Mammon, full of cash." Not at all. Father Urban knows and loves his duty, which is to God. But he knows also that he is by far the best fund raiser, and indeed almost the only...
...part of many crops; a 20-year study proved that cotton yields would be cut by 40%. Production of many kinds of fruit and vegetables would be impossible; unsprayed apple trees, for instance, no longer yield fruit that is sound enough to be marketed.*Potato fields swept by the Colorado beetle or late blight (the fungus that caused the great Irish potato famine of 1846) yield hardly any crop...