Word: utah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearances in Los Angeles tied up traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for hours. He drew an overflow crowd of 12,000 at Brigham Young University in conservative Utah, even though campus authorities declined to cancel classes for the occasion. In Lincoln, Neb., he attracted the biggest political audience (12,000) since Dwight Eisenhower stopped there 16 years...
...Democratic delegates at the August convention, but every day brings word of new defections. Of the nation's 24 Democratic Governors, no fewer than ten have failed to commit themselves to the President. Even the loyalists are finding themselves with shrinking armies to command. In Utah, pro-Johnson Governor Calvin Rampton declared after learning that six of his eight top nonsalaried advisers prefer New York Senator Robert Kennedy: "I may have a tough time holding the delegation for Johnson." In Iowa, where Democratic precinct caucuses last week showed that Senator McCarthy might pick up as many...
There was no denying that over 4,500 Utah sheep had staggered, fallen and died-their feet twitching spasmodically and some frothing at the mouth. There was no denying that their carcasses lay scattered across an area stretching 14 miles downwind from the Dugway Proving Grounds, a restricted U.S. Army chemical, biological and radiological research center in western Utah where nerve gases are tested. But last week there was plenty of denying by the Army that anyone had proved Dugway directly responsible for the sheep deaths...
...modern-minded National Ballet of Washington, D.C., performed 26 different dances last year while building its season to 94 performances. During its 45-week season, the Utah Civic Ballet plays to an audience of more than 90,000. Like many regional troupes, the Cincinnati Civic Ballet, which has 475 students presently in its school, imports such stellar guests as the New York City Ballet's Violetta Verdy and Edward Villella. It is only fitting. As part of a vast farm system for the larger companies, Cincinnati supplied Balanchine with his reigning ballerina, Suzanne Farrell...
...Provo, Utah...