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...dream up, the farthest-out would seem to be making automobiles. It has been 28 years since an American started an auto-manufacturing business from scratch - and that was a disastrous flop for Henry Kaiser. So meet Don Quixote - in the form of flamboyant Malcolm Bricklin, 35, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident who wears studded denims and bedecks himself with silver-and-turquoise jewelry...
...week's end Nixon took to the road to sell his side of the transcript story to the public. His first stop was Phoenix, Ariz., where his audience of 13,000 at a Republican fund raiser was mostly friendly. But shouts of "Hail to the thief!" and rhythmic clapping from a handful of hecklers in the balcony rattled Nixon. His voice quavered, his hands tightly gripped the flower-bedecked lectern, and he occasionally mispronounced words. Still, cheers drowned out the boos when he said that he had furnished "all the relevant evidence" needed "to get Watergate behind us" and promised...
...people. Last week he flew to Jackson, Miss., and was enthusiastically cheered and applauded by some 10,000 members and guests of the Mississippi Economic Council when he predicted better days ahead for the nation (see THE PRESIDENCY). Nixon was scheduled to address a group of Republicans in Phoenix, Ariz., this Friday and attend the opening of the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday. In counterpoint last week a largely youthful crowd of 7,500 people, many bused in from other cities, marched peacefully down the capital's Constitution Avenue demanding Nixon's impeachment...
JACK TOBIN Phoenix, Ariz...
Died. Lewis Williams Douglas, 79, former Democratic Congressman from Arizona and Ambassador to Great Britain from 1947 to 1950, following a long illness; in Tucson, Ariz. Born in a frontier mining camp, Douglas went East to be educated and then worked briefly in his father's copper mine before entering politics. Douglas served in the House from 1928 until President Roosevelt appointed him Director of the Budget in 1933. After 18 months, Douglas resigned in protest against New Deal fiscal policies but continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service...