Word: denver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devil is loose," mourned one young hippie, "and as long as he is loose, there will always be wrong things." Then a score of hippies in Denver murmured prayers for a "beautiful person" named Carol and a requiem for Carol's little Billy...
Billy was the darling of the denizens of the crash pad at Provo House, a tarnished brick relic of bygone opulence hard by Denver's Capitol Hill area. Provo House, named for a group of Dutch student rowdies by a Californian who calls himself "The Strider," proffered free mattresses and sometimes free food to hippie drifters, dropouts and runaways. The flower children lavished their love on Billy, making sure that the cheerful blond two-year-old always got a generous portion of their meager meals. Only when forced to take a bath would Billy blow his cool...
...week's end Carol was in a hospital while Denver's district attorney, James D. McKevitt, awaited the outcome of chemical tests for drugs on samples of her blood. "This is just a tragic example of what is going on in that area," said McKevitt, who has watched Denver's hippie population swell from almost nothing to an estimated 3,500 inside a few months after the Colorado legislature refused to make possession of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and speed a criminal offense...
Noting that "the first thing the driver sees is the color," the committee concluded a three-day meeting in Denver by recommending that the U.S. make its road signs easier to recognize by broadening the basic spectrum of six colors (white, black, red, green, yellow, blue) now being used. The new hues would include purple for school zones, orange for road construction ("detour"), and brown for public recreation areas-with grey, buff and chartreuse held in reserve for future needs. So far, Washington, D.C., and Denver have tested the purple school signs with favorable results, and Albuquerque and Syracuse...
...Denver 21--Buffalo...