Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Fun. By then the shimmy was something that belonged to the past, along with speakeasies and a stock market where anybody could cash in. Gone, too, were Gilda's fortune and her health. She filed a petition in bankruptcy and went out to Colorado to pull herself together on a friend's ranch. Later, there were a few moments of notoriety: she stirred up the town of Sterling, Colo, by consenting to appear at a high school dance; she sued Columbia Pictures for a million dollars, claiming that the movie Gilda was an invasion of her privacy...
...Kansas-born Presbyterian minister named James Rayburn, and he felt that it was up to him to do something to bring the Bible alive for teenagers. In 1940 he organized a group in Dallas called Young Life. It grew slowly, gained considerable impetus as Rayburn acquired three ranches in Colorado and a bankrupt vacation resort in British Columbia known as Malibu Beach. The prospect of spending a summer week or more at one of these layouts for a nominal fee of $35 a week did wonders to stimulate the interest of potential Young Lifers...