Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just the Beginning. As spring of 1961 comes to the high country, work is forging ahead at half a dozen dusty sites on the Upper Colorado Basin Project, the most ambitious water-harnessing program in U.S. history. The effort now includes four huge dam complexes and eleven satellite projects, is budgeted at more than $1 billion. But the U.S. Reclamation Department engineers insist that this is just the beginning; they talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona...
...windswept plateaus, shifting seas of sand, canyons slashing down through layers of sandstone, and, always on the far horizon, mountains of barren granite. Beneath the ground is a fabulous treasure of coal, oil, sodium, magnesium, potassium, uranium. Coursing through the entire region-from Wyoming to Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork and the Frying Pan, until, after a passage...
...throughout most of its upper vastness, the Colorado River Basin has long seemed to be dying of thirst. The Colorado has merely rushed through the landscape, unharnessed for use by man, leaving behind only magnificent wasteland. Last week, as Interior Secretary Stewart Udall inspected the giant dam rising across Glen Canyon in northwest Arizona, it was apparent that the Upper Colorado Basin was at last on its way to becoming a land of incomparable opportunity...
George Gamow, noted science writer and professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, will discuss the "Origin of the Universe" tonight in Burr B at 8 p.m. The lecture is sponsored by Natural Sciences 5 and the Department of Biology...
...Marines as an Air Transport Service officer, he learned to fly to know a pilot's problems. After the war he went to McCulloch Corp., helped build it up from a tiny company housed in Quonset huts. He took his wife on outboard races on the rough Colorado River through the Grand Canyon ("How can you" be in a business without knowing the product...