Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COLORADO. He is still given to wearing polished, calf-length boots and three-leaf-clover cuff links, but handsome Gary W. Hart, 36, now a Denver attorney, has matured considerably since he directed George McGovern's campaign in 1972. Running for the Democratic nomination for Senator, Hart took much more pragmatic and moderate positions on defense and social issues than his old mentor did, going so far as to advocate a reduction in welfare doles and a new emphasis on public-service jobs and private employment...
Hart faced a special problem: he had to distinguish himself from his primary opponent, Herrick S. Roth, 58, who, it so happened, had worked in Colorado for McGovern. Hart's tactic was to attack not Roth but Republican Senator Peter Dominick, 59, who will be running again in November. Hart charged that Dominick, the chairman of the Senate's Republican Campaign Committee, had concealed the source of money received in 1972 from a dairy cooperative and passed it on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. "Hogwash," said Dominick. Hart, he said, was "a liar...
Solzhenitsyn's charge will doubtless prove embarrassing to the leaders in the Kremlin, where the 69-year-old Sholokhov reigns as a court novelist and hatchet man for cultural hardliners. In recent years, Sholokhov has frequently denounced liberal writers; in 1969 he characterized Solzhenitsyn as a "Colorado beetle" who deserved extermination as a noxious plant pest...
...where diners can consume their filet mignon in a 1951 Packard-a building in Buffalo reconstructed from Mark Twain's old home, and an exquisite old Claremont, Calif., high school. There is also a streetcar manufacturing plant in San Francisco that serves only spaghetti dishes; and a reconstructed Colorado-style mining camp called The Chicago Claim Company, where luncheon menus are printed on land-claim certificates, and the decor features outsize mining pans. The place is, literally, a gold mine...
...will have to find another form of exercise. Says Ford: "The Oval Office seems very confining. I'd have to go to Burning Tree for golf, or to Camp David. I won't have a Key Biscayne or a San Clemente, but we will go to Vail [Colorado] to ski over the holidays...