Word: montana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belt site is just one of many Minuteman installations either built or abuilding. Officially declared operational for the first time this week, 20 of the three-stage, 32-ton Minutemen are now cradled in 80-ft. silos sunk in Montana's wheat and cattle country. They are armed with nuclear warheads, aimed and ready to hurl the equivalent of 500,000 tons...
...game, they do not pray for victory. "We just pray," says a player wryly, "that we'll come out in one piece." For 21 seasons, the toothless Cougars were the pussycats of the Skyline Conference, winning only 69 of 203 games against such middling opposition as Wyoming, Montana, Utah State. B.Y.U. now belongs to the new Western Athletic Conference, and with only three victories in nine games, it is still the weakling of its league. But this season, the Cougars have grown at least one gleaming fang: a laconic, crewcut tailback named Eldon ("The Phantom") Fortie, whose record...
Died. Lieut. General Frank William Milburn, 70, a husky West Pointer who won three Silver Stars for front-line bravery as XXI Corps commander in Europe and I Corps commander in Korea, retired in 1952 to become athletic director of Montana State University, in 1955 sat on the ten-man committee that wrote the new soldiers' code of conduct designed to guide captured U.S. soldiers; of emphysema; in Missoula, Mont...
Died. Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman...
...Lapels. In Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, Teddy made the townsfolk feel that just as soon as the elections were over he and Joan planned to settle there and find their future. Teddy crossed Wyoming six times, and delegates can recall literally being held by their lapels while Teddy extolled his brother. Says Wyoming Democratic Chairman Teno Roncalio: "He made me get up every morning and go horseback riding with him at 6 o'clock-and for an hour and a half!" At the Los Angeles convention, saddlesore Roncalio was vice chairman of the Wyoming...