Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for Barnaby's uneasiness is the loss of Harvard captain Craig Stapleton, number four player. Stapleton is in Denver, Colorado, for Rhodes Scholarship exams...
...Last week they did that, and did it peacefully. In a quiet, orderly referendum, the country's 1,200,000 voters decided to return to a single, one-man .presidency. The new President is Oscar Gestido, 65, a scrupulously honest, mild-mannered ex-Air Force general whose liberal Colorado Party swept into power for the first time in eight years...
...trustees of Colorado Woman's College could have been pardoned a worried frown a fortnight ago when Denver Millionaire Temple Hoyne Buell went to dinner at Manhattan's Caravelle restaurant with Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, a smooth fund raiser currently rounding up $200 million from the likes of Alumnus Buell. Instead, the Colorado trustees smiled knowingly and two days later announced that Buell and his wife Virginia had given the college $25 million, plus broad hints of more to come...
Neither Buell (rhymes with duel) nor his wife had close ties with Colorado Woman's until 1959, when they struck up a friendship with the school's President Eugene Ellsworth Dawson. Colorado Woman's has 50 well-trimmed acres in a top residential area of Denver, draws its 1,037 students from all over the nation. Until Buell's gift, it had an endowment of less than $2,000,000. It plans to use income from the new trust mainly to improve its faculty...
...Sandy" Buell, 71, a frequent golf partner of Dwight Eisenhower, has designed public buildings in Colorado, but earned much of his money in such real estate developments as Denver's fashionable Cherry Creek Shopping Center. His first wife, Marjorie Mclntosh, was rich from Household Finance Corp. interests, and his present wife is the daughter of Horace Bennett, a Denver real estate tycoon. The Buells have asked only one favor: to be buried on the campus. The grateful trustees offered even more: they voted to change the school's name from Colorado Woman's (generally agreed...