Word: ariz
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Died. Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, 93, pioneer efficiency expert and mother of the family described in Cheaper by the Dozen; in Phoenix, Ariz. Lillian Moller was working on the third of her 17 master's degrees and doctorates when she married Frank Gilbreth in 1904. The couple soon collaborated on several books (now considered efficiency primers), not to mention six sons and six daughters. Two of the children, Frank Jr. and Ernestine, wrote Dozen in 1949, describing the management techniques used in the Gilbreth household: a daily assembly call, a weekly family budget session, and a division of labor scheme...
Attorney General John Mitchell has demonstrated that Martha isn't the only stand-up comedian in the family. Called upon to pinch-hit for his sick wife as commentator at a Martha Mitchell Fashion Fiesta in Tempe, Ariz., John wowed the audience of 1,200 with some gags right out of the old Keith-Albee circuit. When a woman sponsor of the show asked him at the microphone. "May I call you John?", he cracked back. "Yes, if I may call you later." Giving the models an appreciative eye: "I don't know about the clothes...
...Tucson, Ariz...
SUSAN S. COFFIN Scottsdale, Ariz...
...Italian word can simply mean channels or grooves, it was promptly translated into English as canals, which suggested that they were artificially made. That inspired an erstwhile American diplomat named Percival Lowell (of the Boston Lowells) to take up astronomy and establish an observatory near dry, cloudless Flagstaff, Ariz., principally to study Mars. Lowell spotted hundreds of "canals" on the Martian surface and contributed the theory that they were the work of an advanced civilization. Belief in intelligent life on Mars was dramatized by H.G. Wells in his novel The War of the Worlds and carried into contemporary times...