Word: denver
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Before coming to Harvard, Glazer served as dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. At Stanford he will become vie-president for medical affairs and professor of medicine as well as dean of the medical school...
Died. Wayne Estes, 21, Utah State University basketball star, this season's second highest college scorer (just behind Miami's Rick Barry) with an average 33.7 points per game, a 6-ft. 6-in. senior who in his last game, a 91-62 win over Denver, netted 48 points to achieve his goal of scoring 2,000 points (he got 2,001); of electrocution two hours later when he stopped to help at an auto accident, bumped his head into a high-voltage wire dangling 6 ft. 5 in. from the ground; in Logan, Utah...
...Justice Earl Warren. The guest list was impressive. All the Justices of the Supreme Court and most of the members of the Johnson Cabinet were there. The leaders of Congress were well represented. So was the newspaper-publishing industry-the Otis Chandlers of Los Angeles, the Palmer Hoyts of Denver, the Arthur Sulzbergers of New York. Top Washington Lawyers (and sometime Johnson advisers) Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford were present. So were Laurance Rockefeller and Harvard Law School Dean...
Only once did Piatigorsky accept an offer to conduct. "Half dead from rehearsals," he recalls, he mounted the Denver Symphony podium and to his horror was informed that he first had to conduct the national anthem. "Somewhat bewildered, I gave a sign to the drummer and let him go on for an unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison...
Last week, at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver, Wegner never even got to count one. The luck of the draw gave him Bull No. 89, a cream-colored crossbreed that had never been successfully ridden. Grasping the rails of the chute, Wegner gingerly eased himself onto the bull's back and began to wrap the rope around his hand. The angry animal chose that instant to leap 4 ft. straight up, 10 ft. forward, and dig its front hooves into the dirt. Wegner flew headfirst over the horns ("like he was shot from a cannon...