Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humor. Statistics were still piling up as the 1966 hunting season drew to a close last week, but it already seemed likely to be one of the bloodiest in history. Texas alone reported more than 75 shooting accidents and 24 fatalities; Michigan counted twelve dead, Maine five, Colorado five, Georgia four. "We've had people mistaken for everything from birds to porcupines," complained Michigan's conservation director, and a Texas wildlife official warned: "Sure, it's fun to get out in the woods. But it's also a good idea to wear a helmet...
...candidate, a dozen moderate G.O.P. Governors and Governorselect had a secret meeting at White Sulphur Springs to look over Michigan's George Romney, currently the front runner for the nomination. Gathering in the suite of Colorado's John Love, they discussed ways to corral and keep delegates for Romney-as at least a pre-convention symbol of G.O.P. moderation if not necessarily as the moderates' most-wanted candidate. The Governors' blunt advice to Romney, whom they consider too impressed by polls and favorable publicity: he can win the nomination only by working hard from the precinct...
...little Weston? It made for intriguing speculation that among the six states under final site consideration (the others: California, Colorado, Michigan, New York and Wisconsin), Illinois by next month will be the only one with a Democratic Governor. But the Atomic Energy Commission insisted that the controlling factor was Weston's proximity to existing scientific centers. After all, the new atom smasher will be situated just 17 miles from the AEC's sprawling Argonne National Laboratory and less than an hour's drive from Chicago, where Enrico Fermi first split the atom in 1942. In a sense...
...Economist Barbara Ward, when he warned that "the scientific, technological and economic gap between the rich and poor nations is widening." Before leaving New York, he managed to lavishly praise Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Javits and Mayor Lindsay. Then he jetted off to the Republican Governors' Association conference in Colorado, where he again lambasted Lyndon Johnson for having created "public disillusionment...
...Word He Can Use. Like all the other Republican Governors and Governors-elect, Reagan spent the weekend at Colorado Springs. Alighting from one of two private jets that carried a party of 13, he rejected the gaudy gold Cadillacs (complete with seat warmers) that ferried the other participants, plopped himself instead into a sober blue limousine...