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Show 134 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER "Mr. x," whom he identified only as an insurance executive, had visited an "eye doctor" in Hartford, Conn. In the doctor's waiting room he had exchanged remarks with a Mrs. Gerrie O'Connor. Untermann swore their conversation "actually took place," and he repeated it in this way: 15° Mr. x: "Have you read 'Perspective' in this issue of Newsweek?'''' Gerrie: "No. I haven't." Mr. x: "Here, read it." Gerrie: "Sorry sir, but my eyes are pretty fuzzy at the moment." Mr. x: "Yes, yes. Well, this man Raymond Moley, know him?" Gerrie: "Not personally, only his writing." Mr. x: "That's what I mean. Now he gives all the true facts about the proposed dams in Dinosaur Na- tional Monument. Know anything about that? Gerrie: "A little." Mr. x: "Well I'm against the whole project." Gerrie: "Why?" Mr. x: "Why? The facts speak for themselves. Moley says they shouldn't be built and I believe him. Especially since it's in Utah." Gerrie: "It's in Colorado. But what's wrong with Utah?" Mr. x: "Why, it's full of Mormons." Nurse (who overheard the conversation): "Mor- mons; is that bad?" Mr. x: "Well, darn it, nurse, of course it's bad. Those Mormon men work all their wives like dogs." Gerrie: "And of course your source of information is-" |
