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Colorado is a state of vivid, sometimes startling, contrasts. Thousands of miles of its flatlands are rich with the emerald green of winter-wheat shoots; other thousands of miles are pasture, dotted with grazing cattle. But the western half of the state is ruggedly mountainous, the 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...
Everywhere there is color. The huge concrete shielding blocks are green, purple, and gray. Pipes are blue, nitrogen tanks a vivid yellow, heavily insulated cables are red, and black. Overhead ventilation ducts are fire red. The personnel of the C.E.A. are oblivious to the gaudy, nursery school quality of their surroundings. "It's better than just having everything gray," said a technician, "but I don't suppose it really matters much. You get used to the color, whatever...
...Broadway, makes a luminously likable louse; Richardson lacks the fire and charm of Fredric March, but he plays with wit and penetration; Stockwell, in the weakest of the parts, adds up at least as well as Bradford Dillman did; and Hepburn, though she establishes too vivid a presence for a woman who is largely an absence, nevertheless centers in intensity a drama that Florence Eldridge enveloped in pathos...
...after Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger appeared on its courts in a powder-blue polo shirt and vivid yellow shorts, Newport's famed, fabled tennis Casino strictly enforced the "all white" rule for tennis players...
...effects; wildlife does not fare as well. Wild animals, birds, fish, and friendly insects are among the valued inhabitants of the U.S., and a good part of Miss Carson's book tells about the deadly effect of wholesale spraying on these pleasant and harmless creatures. In vivid language, she tells how DDT spraying to protect elm trees from Dutch elm disease nearly wiped out the bird populations of many Midwestern cities, how fruitless attempts to exterminate the imported fire ant of the South by airplane dusting with dieldrin had dire effects on many kinds of wildlife...