Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Beadle State College in South Dakota, the President roundly castigated student militants and denounced campus disorder. At the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, he took up the cudgels for the much-criticized U.S. defense establishment (see following stories). Reported TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, who was travelling with the President: "Richard Nixon is rather possessed by two thoughts at this stage. He is deeply worried that the nation, as he puts it both publicly and privately, is turning inward, and he feels that his mission in the Presidency is to keep the U.S. great. In truth Nixon...
...forum could hardly have been better chosen. In the crystalline air of Colorado Springs, amid the immaculate decorum of the U.S. Air Force Academy, the discontented rumblings of another America seemed remote. "It is open season on the armed forces," Nixon observed. "Military programs are ridiculed as needless, if not deliberate waste. The military profession is derided in some of the so-called best circles of America. Patriotism is considered by some to be a backward fetish of the uneducated and unsophisticated...
...fact is, in the early '60's congressmen from statse such as Missouri and Colorado were not particularly happy to see the lion's share of Federal money going to universities in Massachusetts and California had more than a little to do with the adoption of the "regional centers" policy...
...hinged on closing victories against Dartmouth and Princeton. Those victories never came as Dartmouth upset Harvard and the Tigers won handily at home. "After those losses, I though our chances of attending the NCAAs at that time were very slim," LoPucki said, "I never thought that we'd see Colorado Springs...
...Force in October, 1957. He entered the Columbia University general studies program in the spring of 1958 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Cum Laude in 1961. He got his Ll. B. from Harvard in 1964, spent a year as clerk for a district judge in Denver, Colorado, then came to work for the firm in Boston where he stayed until March of this year. He was married three days before the University Hall trial began...