Word: colorados
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...idea is moving toward reality. Last year Congress authorized a study of the idea (well before Kennedy proposed it) by the Colorado State University Research Foundation, which has since polled experts and visited a dozen countries to find what the corps should...
...Washington talks about politics, but no one in Washington can vote-unless he has an official residence elsewhere. Last year, capping a 160-year campaign for suffrage in the District of Columbia, Congress approved a proposed constitutional amendment to permit Washingtonians to vote in presidential elections. Last week Alaska, Colorado, West Virginia and Washington State all ratified the 23rd amendment, raising to 18 the number of states that have done so. If, as expected, the amendment is ratified by three-quarters of the states (or 38 in all), the District will cast three electoral votes...
Hugging the Mexican border 225 miles southeast of Los Angeles lies California's Imperial Valley, a sprawling 600,000-acre oasis of mineral-rich soil and year-round sun, surrounded by the trackless wastes of the Colorado Desert. Irrigated by aqueducts from the Colorado River, this below-sea-level island in the desert yields $150 million-a-year worth of diversified agricultural products ranging from Syrian plumcots to Pakistani grapes, has nurtured a breed of rugged, Stetson-crowned farm millionaires. Last week, in a melee of millionaires, deputy sheriffs, pickets and Mexican braceros, labor violence reminiscent of the brawling...
This we believe to be the highest campus circulation of any magazine. Typical of the thousands of letters from educators in our files is the following excerpt from the librarian of a Colorado college: "TIME is among the most widely read publications received in our college. It is read extensively for pleasure, and used extensively for research...
...Colorado Springs, Boston's pert Laurence Owen, 16, daughter of nine-time Champion Maribel Vinson Owen, twirled to victory at the national figure-skating championships to replace the retired Carol Heiss as the queen...