Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calm in the Tank. Deep inside the Pentagon, in the National Military Command Center?called "the tank"?first reports of the power failure flashed in from Strategic Air Command headquarters at Omaha and the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs. Both reported that eight major military bases in the Northeastern U.S. had suddenly ?and inexplicably?shifted to auxiliary power but that "the trouble was confined to a particular area and not due to bombs or such...
...from their machines, finding adventure of sorts in the simple business of walking down stairs or directing traffic in darkened streets. Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island...
...variety of shops, eat lunch and have her hair done. Los Angeles' Ail-American Acceptance Corp. has come out with a complete card for the automobile owner, who can use credit for repairs, new parts and the purchase of seat covers or tires. Universal Western Corp., a new Colorado company, issues cards that are honored by doctors, dentists and veterinarians as well as by retailers; unlike most other card plans, it actively seeks college students as customers...
...anti-poverty program seemed to be increasing rather than diminishing. In Johnston, R.I., it turned out that the 91 youths enrolled in an anti-poverty program came from families whose incomes average $5,004, far above the $2,400 ceiling set by OEO. Five members of the Colorado Springs anti-poverty governing body were found to have police records for such offenses as sodomy, escape from a mental institution, burglary, operation of a disorderly house, and suspected assault with intent to commit murder. In Manhattan, Negro officials of HARYOU-ACT,* which has received $2,400,000 from OEO, were subpoenaed...
...UMSTATTD General Counsel Lower Colorado River Authority Austin...