Word: denver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater country, Rockefeller's statement drew a fusillade of angry or contemptuous retorts. Snapped Henry Stollenwerck, Republican member of the Texas state legislature: "it sounds like a frantic statement from a man who has lost and knows it." Growled a Denver Republican leader, E. D. Nicholson: "Rockefeller is dead." To Mississippi's Wirt A. Yerger Jr., G.O.P. state chairman, the statement appeared to be "the scream of a drowning man going down for the third time...
Died. Walter Louis Hakanson, 64, Denver Y.M.C.A. executive, who in 1932 coined the name "softball" and wrote the first national rules for a game that was invented in 1895 by a Minneapolis fireman (he called it "kitten-ball"), but which never caught on until the Depression, when millions of unemployed found it a way to pass their time; after a long illness; in Denver...
...Times, "cannot be allowed to interfere with government (city, state or national)," and the committee, "by these tactics that go beyond the bounds of legitimate picketing, is building up resistance against achievement of the just goals it seeks." Syndicated Cartoonists Bill Mauldin (Chicago Sun-Times) and Paul Conrad (Denver Post), strong pens for the cause of Negro rights, drew sharp pictorial jabs against the bitter criticism that other Negroes at the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Chicago had thrown at University of Mississippi Student James Meredith because they considered him much too moderate...
...mark the anniversary of the first Telstar broadcast, CBS last week presented Town Meeting of the World, bouncing the faces and voices of Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Jean Monnet and Heinrich von Brentano off the orbiting Telstar II. Ike was in Denver, Eden in London, Monnet in Brussels, Brentano in Bonn. Anchor Man Walter Cronkite was in New York...
...Young Republicans are, by definition, young-and possibly immature. Yet it was a hard political fact that only a week before, Republican state chairmen, mostly veterans in the party wars, had convened in Denver-and they too had seemed strong for Goldwater. Said the District of Columbia's Carl L. Shipley: "The depths of this Goldwater feeling is absolutely fantastic. The talk from all sides in Denver is driving nails in Rockefeller's political coffin." Said Maryland's David Scull: "A lot of us have reservations about his tendency to shoot from the hip; it makes...