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Commanding officers rave about the better class of recruits coming in. Says Major General Theodore Jenes Jr., the commander of Colorado's Fort Carson Army post: "The quality we're seeing is going up at an astounding rate. The new kids are easy to train. They have a better sense that the world is a pretty dangerous place and that somebody's got to defend all those things that we believe in." The days of a judge telling a miscreant to join the Army or go to jail are over. "We won't take...
...sprawling campus of the Air Force Academy at the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, the cadets savor their new status. Says David Tubb, 19, a freshman from Viroqua, Wis.: "My friends are envious. They think I've got a lot going for me." Agrees Classmate Richard Kobor, 18, of Syracuse: "Everyone looks up to you. People call you sir. The military...
...right of way. In turn, Amtrak would hope to gain more passengers on its Chicago-Oakland route by changing the train's path so that it crossed more spectacular terrain. The former route traversed southern Wyoming; the new route, and the new train, will cut through the Colorado Rockies...
...Beach with some 6 million sq. ft. of pink polypropylene. Christo's $3.2 million "irresponsible, irrational, poetic gesture," as he calls it, is being financed largely by the sale of sketches, drawings and models of the work. As with earlier endeavors, such as draping a curtain between two Colorado mountain peaks, the obstacles were many. The man-made ones, like environmental protests, public hearings and government permits, were conquered. Nature, however, did not seem to share the artist's vision. As the project got under way, 15-knot winds and choppy waters slowed things up considerably...
Stricker's love affair with track in general started in ninth grade of Colorado's Pamona High School. She began with the hurdles her father's event when he competed for Kalamazoo University. Eventually she rose to become the women's junior national champion in the 1500 and a member of the junior Pan American team. Stricker attributes much of her success to her family. "We never had a sedentary family," she says, "we were always backpacking or other things athletic." Though she didn't remain with her father's old event. Stricker does concode that it was a paternal...