Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Named within hours as Hochmuth's successor was Major General Rathvon McClure Tompkins, 55, a Colorado-born veteran of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, where he won the Navy Cross and picked up a load of Japanese shrapnel that still causes him to limp at the end of a ten-mile hike. Known as "Tommy Two-Star" behind his back, Tompkins served in the Dominican Republic during the 1965 crisis before becoming commander of the Marines' Parris Island boot camp in June, 1966. When Marine Corps Chief of Staff Lieut. General Henry Buse called from Washington to ask Tompkins...
...doesn't see much TV" but favors Walter Cronkite or the local news from Phoenix. Occasionally he looks at documentaries or sports events; his wife Peggy loves Lucy. George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan stick to news and public affairs. Nebraska's Governor Norbert Tiemann and Colorado's Governor John Love try to catch football and the most promising documentaries. So does Vermont's Philip Hoff, though he concludes that "most TV is simply trash, and I don't have the time." Washington's Governor Daniel Evans prefers the Bell Telephone Hour...
Baker was in Colorado when the results of the election were announced. He will race there Thursday in the Sixth National Cross Country Championship of the Track and Field Federation, the last cross country meet of his college career...
After the race, McCurdy expressed doubt that the whole team would travel to the U.S. Track and Field Federation Meet in Colorado on Thanksgiving Day. Baker and Hardin may go, McCurdy said, but previous plans to send seven men will probably be dropped...
...Harvard finishes among the top six in the race, there is a good chance that the team will eat its Thanksgiving Day turkey somewhere in the mountains of Colorado. McCurdy said that in an effort to give the team top-level competition, the University may send it to the United States Track and Field Federation meet in Denver. Ordinarily, a Harvard team of this ability would compete in the NCAA's, but because of the feud between the Association and the Ivy League this year's squad won't participate...