Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beating the bushes for new talent, Bear Bryant drives himself as hard as he ever drives his players. He had hardly hit Texas early last year, a refugee from the high-pressure Kentucky basketball barony of Adolph Rupp, when he put on a recruiting drive that started other Southwest Conference coaches screaming: "Foul!" Conference officials promptly blew the whistle on Bear's overenthusiastic salesmanship and set the Aggies back with a stiff penalty: two years' probation and orders not to appear in any bowl games...
...Honor. In early fall, that bowl-game prohibition seemed academic to most Southwest sportswriters. Almost to a man they picked the Aggies to finish up on the conference doormat. But Bear has been feeding the writers their prophecies ever since. After a slow start against U.C.L.A. (when they looked tough even while losing 21-0), the Aggies have been knocking over everyone in their way. Only against Arkansas did they slow down, and then they eked...
Westward from the man on the hospital terrace swept the Rockies, flecked with the gold of the cottonwoods and aspens, beneath cloudless autumn skies. To the northwest stood Longs Peak, 14,255 ft., and to the southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...
Overall, in 22 states, a network of toll roads built or planned is now webbing fast across a vast segment of the U.S. from Northeast to Southwest. In 1950 all U.S. toll roads together ran to only 439 miles. The total has since expanded enormously; as of this week 1,712 miles are in use, 1,527 under construction and 5,622 more planned. Total cost: $10.7 billion, repayable by road users directly at no cost to taxpayers generally. By 1965, highway experts predict, motorists will be riding nonstop-for a price-on turnpikes from Chicago to Miami, from...
...between New York and Chicago in competition with United and American; United got a nonstop Chicago-to-Seattle run in competition with Northwest, while Northwest in turn got a local nonstop Detroit-to-New York flight in competition with American and United. To improve service between the Northeast and Southwest, CAB has tentatively approved new route segments totaling 6,810 miles for American, Eastern, Capital and T.W.A...