Word: salida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green and a Newark railroad station, and exchanged or left messages and microfilmed documents, tapped in on telephone lines to make untraceable calls. They banked hefty sums of money around New York City under various aliases. In 1954 Abel (cover: "Mark") sent Lieut. Colonel Hayhanen first to Salida, Colo., later to Quincy, Mass, to check construction of the Navy's first atomic-powered cruiser, Long Beach. In the spring of 1955 both Abel and Hayhanen roamed the countryside around Poughkeepsie, N.Y. looking for a suitable short-wave radio site...
Along 30 miles of river, on either side of the mining and tourist town of Salida (pop. 5,000), Theo Bock, 43, and Erich Seidel, 26, members of the Munich Kayak Club, scrambled along the bank, noting treacherous crosscurrents, whirlpools, lurking rocks. Their Teutonic thoroughness was warranted...
Upsets & Death. The first riverboat race on the Arkansas, in 1949, ran nearly 60 miles, from Salida, down between the quarter-mile-high walls of the awesome Royal Gorge, and out again. Only a daring Swiss pair finished; most others dropped out short of the gorge, where capsized boatmen, flanked by sheer rock palisades, have little choice but to sink or be swept, dead or alive, through the canyon. Though .safer, the present shorter course is still a grim ordeal by white water, spiced by three major rapids threatening upsets and death to even the best boatmen...
...keel-wetter for last week's race, a 300-yd. water slalom was run off at Salida. Its course, laid out by Experts Bock and Seidel, was marked by a dozen sets of red and green poles. Boats had to pass the poles to right or left, according to color. Young Erich Seidel, Germany's white-water and slalom champion, threaded his kayak skillfully through the course and won with ease, while several less-practiced contestants upset in the swift water. Then the boatmen got a briefing on the main race. Besides the two Germans, there were three...
...along in cars on U.S. Highway 50, which winds with the Arkansas' west bank. Across the river, on the twisting tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, photographers climbed aboard handcars. At one-minute intervals the boatmen began shoving off from Big Bend, five miles north of Salida, into the chilly (52° F.) torrent. The first big test, Bear Creek Rapids, which a week earlier dashed a boatman to death, lived up to its bad reputation by capsizing the first starter. Soon Theo Bock lost his lead to France's Roger Paris, who kept his kayak...