Word: utah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Utah Democrat Frank Moss: "I have misgivings because I can't see what the ultimate outcome will be. My problem is the same as it is for so many others. When I'm asked what to do, I am at a loss to answer...
...cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After four days of desultory debate, it was all over. Medicare, once the most controversial domestic issue in the U.S., breezed through the Senate like nothing worse than a mild cold. The final vote...
...Jackson Hole, in northwestern Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, has a traffic jam now and again, but mostly when moose and elk saunter across the roads. Tourists drop by from almost everywhere, but it is a summer retreat for well-to-do families from California, Illinois, Colorado and Utah, who want to turn the kids free to enjoy the glories of unspoiled nature without entirely forsaking silver on the table, innerspring mattresses and modern plumbing. Because the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. fell in love with the area and set up a nonprofit corporation to provide facilities, visitors...
...turn of the century by a German count who envisioned it as an American Monte Carlo, the Broadmoor was finally completed in 1918 and given its unique flavor by the late Spencer Penrose, a flamboyant and openhanded Philadelphia socialite who made a fortune in Cripple Creek gold and Utah copper, and poured millions into the hotel and the surrounding area. Rates at the Broadmoor are fairly reasonable by luxury hotel standards, starting at $17 a day single and $22 double and progressing up to $160 a day for a luxury suite with maid and cook...
Giddy Going. At the University of Utah, Phyllis McGinley suppressed a natural appetite for scholarship-"I knew I was bright, but I also knew that in that period and in that environment, brainy women were not appreciated. I made myself over into a giddy prom trotter. I wasn't all that pretty- my teeth stuck out-and so I had to try harder. I didn't learn very much at Ogden, but I had what I always wanted all my life: the society of people, friends, beaux...