Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver...
President Eisenhower had carefully plotted his vacation plans. For the past two summers he had been hampered, on his annual arrival in Denver, with a load of unfinished business. For the first few weeks he had found himself tied to his desk at Lowry Air Force Base almost half of each day, signing bills and attending to leftover work from Washington. This summer, determined to relax for a couple of weeks at least, he had boned away at his chores before leaving on vacation. Last week his briefcase was empty, and except for some routine duties, Ike could look forward...
...driver; the rest were Regular soldiers, a warehouseman, a baker, a gas worker, a mechanic, three unemployed civilians and a student. They wore sports shirts mostly, open at the neck with the sleeves rolled up, and they had come to Governors Island in New York Harbor from distant places-Denver and Detroit, Cottonwood, Ala., and Hanging Rock, Ohio -for a long-awaited Army reunion. Center of the reunion: a clean-looking young Regular Army sergeant who smiled winningly beneath a mop of golden hair...
...lineup, Manager Casey Stengel still manages to keep the Yankees in contention. In August, "Bullet" Bob Turley began to look like the pennant-winning pitcher he seemed to be when he was bought from the Baltimore Orioles, but Righthander Don Larsen, home from a summer on the Yankees' Denver farm, is the man who makes the difference. With three victories in three starts, he has helped to revive an old Yankee habit: making those pin-stripe uniforms convince a ballplayer that he is just a little better than he ought...
...biggest worry for finance companies are the marginal buyers who are living beyond their incomes. In a Pennsylvania showroom last week, the wife of a $79-a-week machinist was fondly eying a $5,100 pink Lincoln Capri; in Denver, Oldsmobile Dealer Alan Hoskins told of an eager buyer who earned $400 monthly and wanted a '55 Olds. "We figured out his income after house payments, furniture payments, TV payments, and after the car payment," said Hoskins, "he'd be left with $20 a month to live. I just couldn't let him get in deeper...