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...Tucson, Ariz...
After marrying a California girl, Natalie Cornell, Rehnquist moved to Phoenix, Ariz., and went into private law practice, engaging in a wide variety of what he calls "cats and dogs" legal work. One of his former partners, James Powers, describes him as "a superb lawyer, a very scholarly guy. He is the ultimate reasonable man, which sets him apart from most people...
Died. James E. Allen Jr., 60, former U.S. Commissioner of Education; with his wife Florence in the crash of a sightseeing plane near Peach Springs, Ariz. Allen, who earned his doctorate in education at Harvard, won a reputation for tough-minded innovation while serving 14 years as chief of New York State's labyrinthine school system. During that period he was castigated for his stands against prayer in the schools and in favor of busing. Thus when the Nixon Administration called him to Washington in 1969, the appointment was a surprise. What followed was not. Allen was soon...
This go-round, Van Dyke is cast as the host of a TV talk show in Phoenix, Ariz.; Hope Lange, after two seasons of sublimation in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, plays Mary Tyler Moore. In the witless premiere, Van Dyke was stuck with one joke, and one as grizzled as his new sideburns: the recidivism of reformed smokers. But the second episode-concerning the humiliation of a local-station headliner screen-testing for a network slot-portended a return to form by TV's consummate situation comedian and by the series' witty "creative consultant," Carl Reiner...
...dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Whatever happened, the result was a New York Mafia power struggle known as the Banana War. It ended with at least seven dead. In 1966, Bill Bonanno was almost killed in a Brooklyn ambush. After Joe Bonanno reappeared, his house in Tucson, Ariz., was bombed. It turned out not to be the Mafia. The assault, in fact, was carried out by an FBI agent with the assistance of a few soldier-of-fortune types...