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Greeley insisted that Knowles's election was not a repudiation of Kleindienst's politics. "I don't think there's anything political in the thing at all," he said. Kleindienst managed the 1964 presidential campaign of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and engineered last year's mass arrests of demonstrators in Washington during the "Mayday" protests...
Died. Carl T. Hayden, 94, the quiet, influential Arizonan whose 57 years in Congress set a record; in Mesa, Ariz. Hayden once remarked that his four-vote defeat in a college election caused him to run scared ever after. He became the state's first Congressman in 1912 and served eight terms in the House and seven more in the Senate before retiring in 1969. A Democrat who preferred cloakroom bargaining to Senate-floor oratory, Hayden became chairman of the Appropriations Committee and doggedly supported bills for Arizona land reclamation, road construction and power development...
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...