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...John Marshall Jacobs of Phoenix, Ariz., one of the U.S. farmers just back from a Soviet tour, took a dim view of the future of religion in Russia. "On one occasion in Moscow," he told a reporter, "our interpreter pointed out a little domed church in the slum section, an area slated for razing and new housing projects. 'There's a so-called church,' said the interpreter. 'Nobody goes there but a few old people...
...PHOENIX, ARIZ...
...Force Bases in the Mojave, the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station near Inyokern, the Army's Camp Irwin at Barstow, Marine Corps depots and bases at Mojave, Barstow and Twenty-nine Palms, and other big bases at Las Vegas and in the Arizona Desert around Tucson and Phoenix. At Frenchman Flat, 70 miles north of Las Vegas, the AEC set up its nuclear-weapons test site...
...they dream big dreams to match the big country. Those with capital look for investments and find them: Ontario (Calif.) Aircraft Executive Glenn Odekirk has interests in desert tungsten and uranium; Hollywood Actor John Ireland and Tennis Star Don Budge are building a swank, $298,000 racquet club outside Phoenix. The less well-heeled look for likely sites for gas stations, ice-cream routes, or the acquaintance of semebody "who's got something good." Even those without cash find it easier on the desert to try new jobs and to borrow money with no more collateral than a good...
...Webb, once a Phoenix carpenter, became a builder, grew with the desert boom, is now a multimillionaire contractor and developer, with interests ranging from oil to part ownership of the New York Yankees...