Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado's Stephen L R. McNichols, 45, a cold-eyed, dollarwise, Western type who got most of his program t including model plans for aid to the aged, mental health and state highways) through the Democratic legislature. Although on the Democratic Advisory Council, he plumps mostly for such Western causes as reclamation projects, has much regard for Texan Lyndon Johnson's ideas. One of the West's able Catholics, he has upped his vice-presidential lightning rod, demands party attention to his region. Says he: "We have votes as well as political savvy...
...when they could be married. Then their troubles began. Barbara Ann's foot did not heal properly, and she entered a Denver hospital for surgery. When she awoke from anesthesia after the operation, Air Cadet Barnwell was at her bedside. He had borrowed a car and driven from Colorado Springs to be with her. In so doing, he had broken academy regulations against driving-and as punishment he was restricted to the academy for the next four months, all that remained before graduation. Recalled Barbara Ann: "I would stand on a hill and wave my handkerchief...
...Force Academy's first graduation exercises, were Barbara Ann Edwards and Lee Barnwell reunited. Two days later, after commencement, commissioning, and a full-dress, crossed-swords wedding at Denver's Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, the couple began their honeymoon. Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care of my wife." The trooper looked down at Barbara...
University of Colorado Arleigh Burke, chief of U.S. Naval Operations Sc.D...
Died. James Zetek, 72, entomologist who spent 36 years studying the behavior of termites on Barro Colorado Island (a haven for biological study that he helped found in the Panama Canal Zone), discovered a species of termite that could gnaw through 5 in. of concrete; of pneumonia; in Panama...