Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowled Over. In Denver, Donna Doss, 24, paid a $15.50 fine for careless driving because she ate her breakfast while driving to work one morning, had a collision with another car, spilled a bowl of Cream of Wheat all over her hair, face and clothes...
There are an estimated 100 fast-draw clubs in the U.S. today. Denver alone has 13. Members dress up in fancy Western outfits, tote six-shooters that cost from $50 to $125 and are modeled on the classic six-shooter of the Old West...
...yesteryear laugh themselves sick. Before making the draw, he must keep his hand on a button four inches from the holster. When his hand leaves the button, the clock starts running. The sound of the shot stops the clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants fix a man-sized target, are timed from draw to bullet's impact...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad will cut sleeping-and parlor-car round-trip fares 28% for nine months to see whether lower fares will attract new riders. Sample: Chicago-to-Denver round-trip fare, including Pullman Roomette, will be $84 v. $123 for first-class air travel...
...point near St. Helena, where the exiled and imprisoned Napoleon died, until, only 1,200 miles from the African coast and only 30 minutes after launching, its nose cone shot down into the South Atlantic. The distance: a fully programed 6,300 statute miles, equal to the span between Denver and Peking, or between an Alaskan launching site and any major target in the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, after only 17 months of flight-testing, Atlas in one epochal shot was well on its way to being the No. 1 weapon of the U.S.'s strategic arsenal...