Word: tucson
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...communicants what to do in office. Last week the point was abruptly revived in sharp specifics-not by evangelical circuit riders spreading bigotry, but by the Roman Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico, two of them born and raised in the continental U.S.: San Juan's Archbishop James Davis (Tucson); Bishop James McManus of Ponce (Brooklyn...
...manifest destiny as a world power. No man was richer, more ruthless or less popular than John Davison Rockefeller, the lord of Standard Oil. and no man seemed less qualified to follow him than the shy and sheltered boy who was his namesake. Yet, when he died in a Tucson, Ariz, hospital last week, a frail and tired man of 86, John D. Rockefeller Jr. had turned the hatred and fear that surrounded his name into warmth and respect; he was mourned the world over, and he left the world a legacy that dwarfed the pyramids of the pharaohs...
Died. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 86, philanthropist son of the two-fisted founder of the Standard Oil empire, father of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller; of pneumonia and heart strain; in Tucson, Ariz, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Arizona State University (10,000) near Phoenix, where four student leaders resigned from a student-faculty committee studying the issue, charged faculty members with "promilitary" bias. Others collected 750 signatures on an anti-ROTC petition, got another 1,500 signatures at Tucson's University of Arizona...
Boom & Build. The tourist trade grew faster than factories. At least 6,000,000 people now tour Arizona each year, inspire gaudier and gaudier strips of motels and roadside restaurants on roads leading out of Tucson and Phoenix. The unchallenged center of tourist trade has risen just across the irrigation ditch from the Paradise Valley area, where the early-bird millionaires first set the style for desert life and leisure. Its name: Scottsdale, which as recently as 1949 was a sleepy farm town of 1,700. It has now become the shopping center for a population of about...