Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over, Goldwater drifted back to storekeeping in Phoenix, but kept riding his hobby horses. With a group of friends, he spent six weeks boating down the perilous rapids of the Colorado River -a rare, rough trip that at the time only a handful of men had made. Honing his skill as a photographer, he published two handsome volumes that pictured Arizona faces and places. He also took his collection of slides across the state, lecturing to any group that would hear his earnest exhortations on the beauties of Arizona...
PUBLIC POWER : Goldwater voted to free gas producers from federal regulation, opposed federal ownership of Hells Canyon Dam in 1956. But he supported the $1 billion, federally sponsored Upper Colorado River Storage Project, which will mightily benefit his Arizona constituents...
...drew as a child, it never occurred to Balcomb Greene, who is now 57, that art could be a man's life work. His father, a Methodist minister, was forever being moved about-from Niagara Falls, where Greene was born, to an assortment of towns in Iowa, Colorado and South Dakota, and finally back to New York. Greene majored in philosophy at Syracuse University, studied psychology in Vienna. When he bucked for an M.A. in English literature at Columbia University he might have been doomed to an academic career had not a fusty professor refused to accept his thesis...
...four former players at New York's St. John's University and New Jersey's Seton Hall University. They were only the latest bad sports in a nationwide basketball scandal, first revealed in March, that now involves 28 players and 17 campuses, from the University of Colorado to North Carolina State College...
...this October is 20%. The Governors concluded that this year's shortage is the product of meager spring rains, low humidity and high winds that literally sucked the moisture out of fields and for ests. But the crisis has been building a long while. For 30 years the Colorado River's water level has been trending downward because of recurring droughts. Southern California is in its third straight spring of drought, and Nevada is in its fourth. Meanwhile, population, industry and farming have grown faster in the West than elsewhere in the U.S.-all of which has increased...