Word: ariz
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Salisbury cited six inaccuracies. Stalin's daughter Svetlana (who defected from the Soviet Union in 1967 and is now Mrs. William Peters of West Scottsdale, Ariz.) told Salisbury that Stalin almost always called her "Svetochka," a very intimate variation of her name, rather than the affectionate but less intimate "Svetlanka," as Khrushchev remembers. It is likely, however, that Khrushchev referred to her as he used to address her, "Svetlanka...
Born in Alexandria, La., Riles was orphaned at the age of nine, raised by family friends. Later he moved to Flagstaff, Ariz., where he attended nearby Northern Arizona University. His first teaching job was in a one-room school on an Apache reservation in Pistol Creek. After Army Air Corps service, he returned to teaching, then took off four years to run West Coast operations of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. He joined the California Department of Education...
...fixed Nixon's determination-he was eleven at the time -to become a "lawyer who can't be bought" (his mother wanted him to become a missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; upon his graduation, the local Harvard Club voted him "best all-around student," but Nixon turned down the chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped found a men's social club called...
Muskie's impassioned 15-minute address followed an equal-length rebroadcast of President Nixon's Saturday night speech in Phoenix, Ariz., in which the president asked voters to elect Congressional candidates who would draw the line against demonstrators he labeled "thugs...
...Silberman's most interesting discoveries is that techniques similar to the British approach have been spreading quietly in U.S. public schools. In the past three years, varieties of it have worked well in at least 28 school districts in North Dakota, the first six grades in Tucson, Ariz., "learning centers" in nine Philadelphia schools, and nearly 40 poverty-area classrooms in New York City...