Word: arizona
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...column box across its front page, Phoenix' Arizona Republic (circ. 63,016) printed this affecting letter from "just a little boy," supposedly in Miami, Ariz. The morning paper gravely explained that it was breaking its rule against publishing unsigned letters because "this little plea, scrawled and misspelled in pencil on a bit of limp paper, defies routine handling...
...visit to the lake and reported that it was almost certainly a meteorite crater (there was no lava or other sign of volcanic activity), and the biggest yet discovered. The lake in the crater (still frozen at the end of July) is 2½ miles across, compared with Arizona's famed meteorite crater, which is four-fifths of a mile across. Its level is about 80 feet above that of other small lakes in the vicinity, and around it is a ring of shattered granite that rises 550 feet above the tundra. The rim is lowest on the northwest...
Based on Elliott Arnold's 1947 novel, Blood Brother, the picture is a fictionalized account of war & peace between the Chiricahua Apaches and Arizona settlers in the 18703. Instead of the blood-lusting savages who whoop endlessly across the U.S. screen, its Indians are proud, dignified warriors with their own cultural tradition, a stern code of honor and a justified hatred of the white invaders. Their tribal chief, Cochise (well played by Jeff Chandler), is an able strategist and a wise statesman. The story works up such sympathy and respect for him and his tribe, and such distrust...
Before working its anthropology lesson into the action, Broken Arrow views the notorious Apaches through the eyes of the white settlers, building a fearsome picture of their terrorism around an Arizona outpost. A frontiersman (James Stewart), tired of the fighting, gets the crazy notion that Cochise may listen to reason. Ignoring the scorn and warnings of the other settlers, he schools himself in the Apache language and lore, sends up introductory smoke signals and rides off alone into the dreaded Indian territory. Director Delmer (Destination Tokyo) Daves puts a fine edge of suspense on Stewart's long ride...
Died. Kate Cross-Eyes, ninetyish, widow of Geronimo, famed Ghiricahua Apache leader who terrorized white settlers in Arizona and New Mexico in the 1880s; in Mescalero, N.Mex. The last of Geronimo's wives to die. Kate was captured in 1886, the year he and his war band surrendered...