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...destiny as a world power. No man was richer, more ruthless or less popular than John Davison Rockefeller, the lord of Standard Oil. and no man seemed less qualified to follow him than the shy and sheltered boy who was his namesake. Yet, when he died in a Tucson, Ariz, hospital last week, a frail and tired man of 86, John D. Rockefeller Jr. had turned the hatred and fear that surrounded his name into warmth and respect; he was mourned the world over, and he left the world a legacy that dwarfed the pyramids of the pharaohs...
...Designed by the Naval Research Laboratory to keep track of satellites whose radios are silent, it is a notable improvement on other radars, which have difficulty finding a small satellite unless they know where to look. Big, 50-kw. transmitters were established at Gila River, near Phoenix, Ariz, and Jordan Lake, Ala., spraying radio waves upward in the shape of open fans. Some 250 miles on either side, receiving stations pick up signals that bounce off any object passing through the fans. By a kind of triangulation, the operators can make rough estimates of the object's speed, distance...
Quick Bite. In Phoenix, Ariz., while practicing a quick draw with his pistol during lunch hour, Warehouseman Richard Sullins shot himself...
GLENDON SWARTHOUT Scottsdale, Ariz...
Last week these strands came together in Phoenix, Ariz, in one of the great whodunits of airline history. They began to meet when the FBI arrested Robert Vernon Spears, presumed dead in the crash, but found alive and well. Had Al Taylor then gone to his death on the DC-7B on Spears's ticket? The FBI began to patch together the pieces to decide whether Spears 1) sent Al Taylor on the DC-7B with a bomb hidden in his luggage to blow up the plane, thereby to fake evidence of Spears's death, collect...