Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denver home where they grew up and where their mother died last September. While pondering the sale of the house, the sisters packed off many of its furnishings to Goodwill Industries, only to hastily retrieve a couple of items (including their mother's hand-carved rocker) after the Colorado Historical Society decided to add a Doud family room to its State Museum...
...Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, 52, saw his Colorado oil bubble burst into the news again when the Securities and Exchange Commission, winding up a two-year probe of Hamilton Oil & Gas Corp., charged Leahy with making "misleading" statements in the peddling of $230,000 of the company's now nearly worthless stock. Responded former Hamilton Vice President Leahy, who suffered a business-induced nervous breakdown last year: "I feel that the SEC knows that I am guilty only of overenthusiasm and lack of experience. If it is God's last act on earth...
...states, the craze, in the words of park officials, is "blowing sky high." In Georgia alone, the "camper days" (number of campers multiplied by number of days camped) are expected to jump 15% over last year's 1,362,000. ¶In the Rocky Mountain national forests of Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska, 2,000,000 appeared last year; in 1961, 100,000 more are expected. ¶In the camp-crazy hot spots of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, where visitors logged 2,000,000 camper days last year, the 1961 projection indicates another...
Ravens & Wild Roses. Not quite so uncompromising in their attitude were two New Mexico physicians and their families who camped last week at Vallecito, in Colorado's San Juan National Forest. Hemotologist Samuel Painter, who had camped in the rough before, this time had a rented trailer for his wife and four children because he wanted to save his pregnant wife the heavy work of tent camping. Cardiologist James Conrad and his wife and two children were using a station wagon and a tent. Neither family fished, but they sailed and hiked. Bird Lover Painter delighted in helping...
...Denver school system to pursue a unique program that teaches parents to teach their preschool tots how to read. The reading technique, originally developed for use in Denver kindergartens, was devised by Dr. Paul McKee and Miss M. Lucile Harrison, both professors of elementary education at Colorado State College, relies on a system of phonics based on the sound of initial consonants to help a child associate words he knows orally with the way the words look on a page. ("Listen as I say the names of these things: mitten, man. They start the same way. Put these two picture...