Word: colorado
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trying to round up a team for Mexico City, he learned to his dismay that Lew Alcindor, the U.C.L.A. skyscraper, and several other Negro stars were planning to skip the Games. The best Iba could do for center was Spencer Haywood, 19, a 6-ft. 8-in. player from Colorado's Trinidad State Junior College...
...E.C.A.C. Christmas tournament in New York, Brown lost to Yale in the opening round and then tied a weak Dartmouth squad in the consolation game. It has also dropped its last two games, losing to Colorado College and R.P.I. by close margins...
...bringing out her first novel in 15 years. Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion), who has also siphoned off much energy into intricate short stories, has finished her first novel in 17 years. Titled A Parliament of Women, it is set in the author's native Colorado, and one of the main characters will be based on her father, a redoubtable writer of westerns (under pseudonyms like Ben Delight and Jack Wonder) who died...
...California desert town on the edge of the Dead Mountains, had suffered the first confirmed mainland outbreak of Hong Kong flu, which struck some 500 people after travelers and servicemen on leave returned home from the Pacific. Since then, Hong Kong cases have been confirmed in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado and North Carolina. Hardest hit was Puer to Rico, with almost 55,000 cases in an epidemic that reached its peak in late October. The heaviest mortality rate was that of Riverview, Philadelphia's home for the indigent, where 266 inmates were stricken and nine died...
...Religion), land exploitation by the California petroleum industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...