Word: denver
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...High-Class Chinese? Last April Sigma Chi suspended its Stanford chapter after the local asked Negro Student Kenneth M. Washington, son of a Denver urologist, to join. Sigma Chi's National Grand Consul, Harry V. Wade, an Indianapolis insurance executive, who said in a letter to the Stanford chapter: "I personally would not resent having a high-class Chinese or Japanese boy admitted to Sigma Chi. But I know full well that his presence would be highly resented on the West Coast. Therefore I must submerge any personal feeling and refrain from proposing a Japanese or Chinese boy because...
Keppel timed his reply to coincide with last week's national Sigma Chi convention in Denver, where Stanford and other delegates fought to gain local autonomy on member selection. The convention left Stanford still suspended, but authorized a commission to study "relationships with local colleges." All the same, the Stanford case had inspired a landmark ruling certain to affect fraternity life profoundly...
This philosophical approach - wedded to some pragmatic business practices-has paid off handsomely for Denver's Samsonite Corp. The firm now accounts for more than a quarter of all U.S. luggage sold, and its sales last year reached a record $55.9 million. Last week, as orders from vacation-bound Americans flooded into Denver, Samsonite raised its 1965 sales estimate from $60 million to $64 million...
...successful completion of the flight. And it got the best. Except for a few relatively minor flaws, the space capsule functioned magnificently; even in the searing heat of reentry, the cabin stayed around 70°F., with humidity of about 60%-just like a crisp June day in Denver. As for the men, Command Pilot McDivitt and Copilot White survived more than four days of weightlessness in such good shape that space doctors were amazed. Each logged 97 hr. 56 min. in space-just 21 hr. 10 min. less than the record set by Soviet Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky in June...
...DeBakey heard this hitherto unpublished story from Barren Beshoar, chief of TIME'S Denver bureau, who did much of the reporting on the cover story. He is the grandson of the Dr. Beshoar who began practice in the cattle town of Trinidad in 1865, and his great-grandfather and father were surgeons as well. After finishing the cover story, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant sent a note of congratulation to Beshoar: "TIME'S annals are full of examples of reporters who went to amazing lengths to get the facts. But I can't think of any other...