Word: ariz
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...will, Long left $10 each to his widow and his daughter, Mrs. Ann Miller, 30. Mrs. Long also received the jointly owned property, including a Missouri farm, a home in Phoenix, Ariz., and a summer place in Wisconsin, but the bulk of Long's $770,000 estate went to his granddaughter, five-year-old Ann Elizabeth Miller; Miss Dunlop was named executrix. Under terms of the will, Miss Dunlop receives $7,500 annually...
McNamara has incorporated strains of Eastern mystical traditions into two ecumenical contemplative centers he has built, one near Sedona, Ariz., and a newer one in Nova Scotia. His visitors, who stay anywhere from a few days to a year, are Episcopal ministers, Catholic priests, Jews and even atheists. Daily meditation periods include readings from Zen, Hindu and Islamic literature, and participants spend long hours in silent and solitary contemplation amidst wilderness surroundings. One notable visitor to the Arizona retreat was Jesuit Theologian Walter J. Burghardt, a member of the Pope's Theological Commission. "What do I think...
Scottsdale, Ariz...
...Howdy from the middle of nowhere," say the souvenir postcards sold in Gila Bend, Ariz. The tiny town (pop. 1,700) is a truckers' and traveling salesmen's way station along Highway 80, which ribbons through the cactus-dotted desert between Tucson and Yuma. But Gila Bend is not the middle of nowhere any more. Last week reporters from both Europe and the U.S. poured into town, thronging the bar of the local Elks' Club and pressing into a dusty little courtroom decorated with a painting of Wild Bill Hickok being gunned down in a Deadwood saloon...
Udall attacked the system as giving "national power to people who are responsible to a limited constituency; Wilbur Mills, one of the most able men in Congress, is not chairman for Little Rock, but for Los Angeles and Long Beach and Prescott, Ariz." Udall has proposed a plan for the majority-party caucus to elect committee chairmen from among the three senior members on each committee, and by secret ballot. In sum, it may well be necessary to drop or at least modify the seniority system in order to encourage more legislators to develop expertise, with the expectation of gaining...