Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caribbean coast are choked with spawning snook and tarpon-so thick that thousands can sometimes be seen roiling the surface of the water. Where the school fish congregate, so do the predators-monster sawfish, and sharks, sharks, sharks. Using only hand lines, fishermen of the Caribbean village of Colorado last year caught 1,800 sharks in less than three months-and shipped the livers to Chinese medicine makers on Formosa...
...Colorado (pop. 800) is also the site of Costa Rica's biggest attraction for foreign fishermen: the annual Holy Week tarpon-fishing tournament sponsored by San Jose's Club Amateur de Pesca. The 62 entrants in this year's contest came from such chilly climes as Worcester, Mass., and included a group of 17 from Indiana. Flying into San Jose two weeks ago, they boarded buses, rode four hours to Puerto Viejo -the end of the road. There they packed their gear into dugout canoes equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui...
UNLIKE larger Hilton and Sheraton, third-ranking Western International Hotels Corp. carefully avoids the look and name of a chain in its 42 hotels; it prefers to let such homey hospices as San Francisco's St. Francis, Seattle's Olympic and the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs breathe with individual atmosphere. But to make sure that efficiency and profits stay up while the chain concept is played down, Seattle-based President Edward E. Carlson, 52, works mostly on the road, usually as his own guest. Carlson started 35 years ago as a pageboy, worked his way from front desk...
...Denver's Champion Ticket Writer James ("Buster") Snider set out to add another notch to his pad. Some notch. The driver turned out to be Defeated Champion Sonny Listen, who just hours before had been happily modeling hats with his wife. Sadly, Sonny did not have a valid Colorado driver's license...
...time since he became Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman attended a Protestant funeral last week. The service was for Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, the Presbyterian wife of the city's Catholic mayor; the Cardinal also authorized her burial in a Catholic cemetery. The Episcopal Bishop of Colorado has spoken at a Knights of Columbus Mass in Pueblo, and last month Los Angeles' sternly conservative James Cardinal McIntyre astounded most of his flock by agreeing to address an Episcopal women's luncheon meeting...