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...steep slopes necked with aspen and capped with snow. Colorado is a land of mining ghost towns and booming oil, gas, missile and atom-research centers. Men in cow boy boots and ten-gallon hats still swing off the cattle trains; but now other men, in Brooks Brothers suits, stride purposefully down the ramps of jet airliners at Denver's Stapleton Airfield. Colorado is also the stage for a couple of ig62's most fascinating political races-and even in these, the contrasts are dramatic. The incumbents are Democrats, both slightly curmudgeonly; they are challenged by Republicans with...
Schirra's wife and two children (Wally III. 12. and Suzanne. 5) have taken his shift to space in stride, followed last week's flight almost as calmly as Schirra performed it. But Wally's aviation-oriented parents are a bit dubious about their son's new calling. "He's not flying now," says Walt Sr. "He's just riding inside an artillery shell...
...seat cushion of the Dodgers' Chavez Ravine over the Giants' Candlestick Park. Celebrating their own pennant, the 27th in 41 years, the Yanks were the image of champagne-sipping nonchalance. "Why should I be excited," sniffed Roger Maris, taking the series in his usual stride. "It's something we expected all along." But the Yankees do not have quite that much to be blasé about. If Maris was last year's home-run terror, he was this year's loud out, batting .256 and hitting only 33 home runs. Mickey Mantle's spindleshanks...
When the avalanche had run its course, McCormack vowed he would never again run for public office. Without breaking stride, the new Democratic candidate for the Senate began to prepare for the campaign against Republican Lodge and H. Stuart Hughes, 46, a Harvard history professor and grandson of onetime Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who was running as an independent...
...endorsement of the Democratic convention in June, McCormack had to use bold tactics in the primary fight. There were those who insisted that Eddie, by dramatizing Teddy's lack of experience in public office and by repeatedly hitting Teddy on the big-brother issue, had taken a stride toward victory in the Sept. 18 primary. There were others who believed that McCormack, by the very virulence of his attack, had turned over a large sympathy vote to, of all people, a Kennedy...