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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today Phoenix is leading Arizona into a boom which, if measured by statistics, skyline and traffic, seems much like the growth pattern that created such major cities as Detroit and sprawling Los Angeles. In fact the boom takes on a difference in quality and character from the backdrop of open land, air and sky that once made up the wildest Old West...
...Phoenix and Tucson (pop. 182,500) reach out into the open spaces with acres of factories, airports, suburbs, housing developments and tourist havens, the open spaces give back an atmosphere that makes this a boom with a difference. Uniquely, the movers and shakers share a sense of self-sufficiency (though they live at the mercy of transcontinental railroads and highways), of well-being (though summer temperatures rise to 120° in the shade), of boundless confidence that if the desert can be turned into a thriving oasis nothing in the world is impossible (though they are still pressed...
...give urgent consideration to this question," Home Secretary Rab Butler was ready to make good a historic promise. Her Majesty's government, he told Parliament, would do something about the nation's crazy-quilt licensing laws at last. As things stand now, a London pub may stay open only nine hours each weekday, and these hours must be divided into 'one period around lunchtime and one period in the evening. But since each borough or local council can fix its own hours, no one can be sure just when "Time, gentlemen" will be called...
...told Fidel Castro that Moscow, mother of revolutions, thought well of Castro's little revolution and was willing to help it out. The Soviet First Deputy Premier went at Cuba's invitation, delivered to him by a special envoy two months ago while Mikoyan was in Mexico opening the Soviets' touring scientific-cultural exposition (TIME, Nov. 30). Ostensible purpose: to open the same fair in Havana...
Battle of Wreaths. Next morning at 11:30, Mikoyan laid a hammer-and-sickle wreath on the statue of Jose Marti, Cuba's George Washington, and took off for the Palace of Fine Arts, two blocks away, to open the exposition with an outdoor speech. A few minutes later a small group of students approached the statue with their own wreath, bearing a ribbon that said: "Vindication for the visit of the assassin Mikoyan." When cops waved them off, a student shouted: "If he can place a wreath, why can't we?" Soldiers guarding Mikoyan at the exposition...