Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tent lashed to its top, its interior littered with toilet paper, pillows and sun caps. Missing was Mrs. Sullivan's 14-year-old daughter Denise. Boothroyd and the Sullivans had been sightseeing at Dead Horse Point, a towering promontory that commands a magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon and the surrounding Utah badlands. They had stopped on the highway to aid a fellow motorist. "Generator trouble." explained the swarthy stranger as he asked to borrow Boothroyd's flashlight. Then he produced a rifle and demanded money. Boothroyd threw his wallet-containing $250-to the ground...
Moonscapes & Rapture. Despite civilization's inroads, the U.S. still offers some of the world's great spectacles of nature, and campers know it. They fished last week in the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest, threaded among the prehistoric ruins at Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, trailed the animals in the Adirondacks, bathed in the cold streams of South Willow Crater in Utah. On the moonscapes of Arizona, in the thick forests of Upper Michigan-wherever the land had managed to preserve its ancient dignity-both tenderfoot and oldtimer paid his respects to grandeur. In return, they...
...along with the poi came some politicking. The conference chairmanship traditionally rotates between parties, and this time a Republican was due to succeed outgoing Democrat Stephen McNichols of Colorado. Democratic National Chairman John Bailey, on hand for the frolic, passed word that neither of the top contenders, Rockefeller and Oregon's Mark Hatfield, should be considered. Bailey's reasoning: both Rockefeller and Hatfield are possibilities for places on the 1964 Republican national ticket, and Bailey did not want to give either of them any added shine. Democrats instead backed New Hampshire Republican Wesley Powell, who is no national...
...done admirable work in contemporary plays, simply is not vocally equipped to cope with a major Shakespearean role. His speech is thick, and his voice lacks music and grandeur. He is careless with his vowels, and we get the impression that Inverness and Dunsinane are really in Colorado and Texas...
...setting of garish sports shirts, pastel shorts, and knobby knees pinkening in the summer sun, 500 designers, teachers and admen gathered in Colorado last week for the eleventh annual Aspen International Design Conference. The theme of the conference was "Man-The Problem Solver." But if the delegates expected comforting words on man's deductive powers, they were brought up short by Designer Bernard Rudofsky, chief architect of U.S. exhibits at the Brussels Fair and guest director of exhibitions at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...