Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From such patchwork beginnings, the ADC has evolved into a 100,000-man force with $8 billion worth of equipment, a $1 billion-a-year budget and 1,500,000 miles of communications circuits. The largest component of the multiservice North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs, ADC is commanded by Lieut. General Herbert B. Thatcher, who flew one of the F-51s at Mitchell 15 years ago. Its major missions...
...Jackson Hole, in northwestern Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, has a traffic jam now and again, but mostly when moose and elk saunter across the roads. Tourists drop by from almost everywhere, but it is a summer retreat for well-to-do families from California, Illinois, Colorado and Utah, who want to turn the kids free to enjoy the glories of unspoiled nature without entirely forsaking silver on the table, innerspring mattresses and modern plumbing. Because the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. fell in love with the area and set up a nonprofit corporation to provide facilities, visitors...
...south, near Colorado Springs, is that fabulous...
...entire mountain region of Colorado has a myriad of old and new resorts which draw thousands of visitors all year round. Aspen, where Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and her children skied last winter, in summer swarms with intellectuals and scholars attending the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, and this year will draw music lovers for a festival and a conference on contemporary music, featuring lectures by distinguished composers. Vail is a bustling new ski resort built to look like an Alpine village. Texas Financier John Murchison has built a home there, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson owns an apartment, and the resort...
...total consumption. After much delay, Carling last month started a continuous brewing plant at Fort Worth that makes beer by assembly-line process instead of in single vats; other beer executives are watching to see if the process accounts for sizable labor saving. Coors Co. of Colorado is developing a vertical process in which it grows its own grain, makes its own cans and adds the beer on a fast production line. Another new possibility being studied: concentrated beer. Concentrates could be brewed in a central plant, shipped at much lower transportation cost to branches for reconstitution with water...