Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the Miss America program is moving along, looking for another kind of woman," explained Winner for 1974 Rebecca Ann King to the Today Show's Barbara Walters as they discussed this year's consciousness-raised Atlantic City pageant. Certainly the former Miss Colorado showed herself to be one of a new breed. Her eyes remained dry throughout her coronation. When her sister said she expected to see Becky cry only on her wedding day, Becky retorted: "That's not a very realistic possibility," adding that she might not even get married. Ms. America, an Iowa farmer...
Started in 1971 with $35,000 in student contributions, the U.C. Student Lobby was the first of its kind, but it now has its imitators at other campuses, such as the State University of New York and the University of Colorado. Alumni from the California lobby went east and founded the National Student Lobby in Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress and federal agencies for financial aid to students...
...staff of 100, the Truth newspaper with a 250,000 press run and it has bought 260 acres north of town for its new headquarters. Crews of young "highway missionaries" travel cross-country. This week Parks and the group's rock band, The Wilson McKinley, hit Iowa and Colorado...
...outside Cleveland, Denver drew more than 10,000 members of what one Blossom official called the "clean-shirt crowd." Although the audience ranged in age from twelve to 70, it was predominately a Middle American assemblage of young-marrieds. Part of the show was a color film of the Colorado Rockies, featuring occasional shots of Denver trotting in the wilds or swapping jokes with friends around a crackling campfire. Meanwhile, Denver stood at the stage apron and sang his own Rocky Mountain High...
Some of the Colorado mountain folk live there because they have never known anything else. Denver lives there by choice, having seen most of the U.S. while growing up as the son of an Air Force lieutenant colonel. "I wanted to be accepted, so I worked on things that would make people like me," he says. Such as the guitar he bought at age 13, when he found himself alone once again at a new school in Montgomery...