Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Love, now 56 years old, grew up in Colorado, getting his B.A. and law degree from the University of Denver. After serving in World War II, he settled down as an attorney in Colorado Springs. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), he astonished everyone in 1962 by entering the gubernatorial race with no prior political experience-and winning. He has held the office ever since, serving longer than any other Colorado Governor...
...other occasions, the CIA has been exposed as operating within the U.S. In the late 1950s, according to David Wise's book, The Politics of Lying, the CIA trained Tibetans in Colorado's Rocky Mountains to fight against Chinese Communist rule. At the same time agency men were preparing Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion...
Last year, for example, Colorado acted to prevent overbuilding on its slopes, and California declared a moratorium on all development within 1,000 ft. of its entire Pacific coastline. Now two more states have just taken bold steps to save their land...
...published his first book: Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. In the mid-sixties he ran with the Angels virtually as a friend, writing relatively sympathetically about them and eventually being stomped by them. Later he ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, on the Freak Power ticket, whose platform included a decidedly unviable stand on the question of mescaline use. He almost won. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas followed this: it is a brilliant documentary novel about Hunter's and his attorney's monumentally stoned sojourn on the Strip with...
...vast amounts of shale found in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming could also be important sources of oil, yielding about 25 gallons for every ton excavated. Both shale mining, which leaves great quantities of waste material above the surface, and strip-mining for coal despoil the landscape. But the exploited landscape could satisfactorily be restored-at a price...