Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education of a Tramp. After the fourth grade in Pueblo, Colo., Damon Runyon's schooling ended, and his education began. His tutors (like "Our Old Man," as he later called his dad) were tramp printers who could quote the Bible, Shakespeare and Bob Ingersoll with equal conviction. From them he learned, among other priceless lessons, to be a good listener...
Dreamland. In Pueblo, Colo., city officials sold a lot carried on delinquent tax rolls for 76 years, and thereby found that it had never existed...
Though Juan Pueblo-the Argentine-in-the-street-might goggle at the cost of these deals, he could hardly hide his pride at such proof of what Peron called "coming of age," and he was inclined to agree that now was the time to buy, when there was cash in the Argentine till...
Many of the younger pilots needed accurate navigation to get anywhere above the overcast, but Mantz flew along at 30,000 feet, using instruments, but to hear him tell it, following his nose. The first time he saw ground was at Pueblo, Colo. "I spotted it through a break in the clouds just off to the right where I wanted to be." He sat back, gazing at the steamy floor of cloud just below him. "I was sloppy . . . sometimes I'd let the plane climb as much as 1,000 feet without doing anything about it," said...
Last week the U.S. promised again to honor its promise, and might even do so at last. The eight-year-old boy, now 86, had been chief of the Navajos for 62 years-though not a Navajo himself. Chief Chee Dodge, who is half Spanish and half Pueblo, was bedded with heart trouble...