Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campers looked like any group of seasoned hikers enjoying the outdoors, but they actually were previously officebound executives experiencing perhaps their most unusual assignment. At the suggestion of their companies, the businessmen and women were participating in an executive-enrichment program developed and operated by Colorado's Outward Bound school...
Participant, as opposed to spectator, sports have yet to feel any real squeeze. Sales of tennis rackets, balls and clothes are still booming, and ski lodges in Utah and Colorado are booked solid for the coming season...
Separated. Sue Lyon, 28, Hollywood's passionate nymphet of the 1960s (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana); and Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 34, convicted murderer whom Lyon met after his arrest and married a year ago in the Colorado state prison. Lyon filed for divorce "because I've been told by people in the movie business . . . that I won't get a job because I'm married to Cotton." But, she added, "I'll always love...
...Blacks continued their advance into and up the political ranks. By 574 votes, Tennessee Democrat Harold E. Ford, 29, upset Republican Congressman Dan Kuykendall, bringing the number of blacks in the House of Representatives to 17. In Colorado, Democrat George Brown was elected Lieutenant Governor, and State Senator Mervyn Dymally gained the same post in California-the first blacks to win that office in any state since Reconstruction. Most impressive, however, was the hold blacks maintained on elective offices they already occupy and the dramatic increase of black officials in the South. Across the nation, nearly all black state legislators...
...electorate confronted a bewildering array of 17 separate statewide propositions, including one that called for the elimination of all masculine terms from the state constitution (it passed). Connecticut voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment barring sex discrimination identical to the as yet unratified national Equal Rights Amendment. In Colorado environmentalists pushed through a measure requiring voter approval for any future nuclear detonations that might be set off to exploit the state's rich energy reserves. In Massachusetts 24 towns voted on whether or not complete amnesty should be granted to draft dodgers and deserters. The tally: only eight towns...