Word: towns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead of a place to leave. In 1867 an Indian fighter named Jack Swilling began to investigate the ruins of some ancient canals (believed to have been built in the loth century by the Hohokam people). Swilling decided to set up an irrigation company, succeeded in starting a new town. One literate resident proposed that they call their town Phoenix because, he said, they would raise there a new civilization upon the ruins of the old. The new civilization did not win a real chance of success until after President Theodore Roosevelt pushed through his Reclamation...
Phoenix cherishes another unique monument to desert progress: the downtown Fox Theater, in 1931 the first building in town to install an air-conditioning system. As mechanical air conditioners became cheaper, they eventually became a necessity for every business, standard equipment in homes. This simple piece of technology, now installed in automobiles, made the desert endurable year round, made the vast reaches of Arizona a promising center for easy living...
...sense of unreality hung over the once-busy city room, which had been turned into a sort of employment agency to help ex-staffers get jobs. On one side of the newsroom a bulletin board listed some 200 job offers in Cleveland industry, but few newspaper openings. Out-of-town papers, e.g., the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, sent personnel representatives to interview ex-News reporters, many of whom discovered that they were considered too old to pick up good newspaper jobs. Said one ex-Newswoman: "I feel like a corpse who can hear, and is lying listening to everybody...
...William Ezra died of a heart attack at 42. Automatically, the job falls to his son, the current Ezra. Under state law the boy may not actually exercise the function until his 21st birthday. Meanwhile, Future Trustee Cornell has another problem: getting into Cornell. Last week, between tearing around town on his bicycle and leapfrogging over fire hydrants, Ezra gave new thought to the matter. Said he: "I only have one bad mark, a D in spelling. But I'm bringing it up, I think...
Married. Adolph Green, 44, co-author (with Betty Comden) of some of Broadway's brightest hits (Two on the Aisle, Wonderful Town); and Phyllis Newman, 25, stage and screen actress; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan...