Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resplendent in a purple, lace-cuffed outfit, tricornered hat and horn-rims, he looked like a happy straggler from a Bicentennial parade. But no, that was Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater, 67, manning the battlements on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay last week. Called back to active duty to help restage the Battle of St. Michaels, in which American artillerymen beat off an attack by British ships during the War of 1812, retired U.S. Ah" Force Major General Goldwater took command of the defenses, fired off a few ceremonial cannon-and considered the meaning...
What drew them to Phoenix was the death of Don Bolles, 47, the Arizona Republic investigative reporter killed four months ago when a bomb blew up his car. Bolles had for years been digging into local political corruption and organized crime. On June 2 he was finally lured to his death by a telephone tipster who claimed to be offering information on a land-sales fraud. Now Bolles' colleagues of the IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors Association) will try to pick up where he left off. "We're not here to catch Don Bolles' killer," says Michael...
...extend the expansion begun in 1836, when, with the support of their government, Texas unilaterally declared its independence from Mexico in order to enter the Union. This led to the acquisition of not only the territory of that state but also of that now occupied by the states of Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah, Nevada and parts of others...
...eternal flame at the base of a six-story building, the sanctuary is the center of a $15 million campus designed by Indian medicine men and paid for largely by federal funds. Navajo Community College, which moved to its new 1,200-acre campus at Tsaile in northeastern Arizona three years ago, is the first entirely Indian-operated and -controlled institution for higher learning on a reservation in the U.S. Eighty-five percent of its 1,365 students (ages 16 to 65) are Navajo; the remainder represent 20 other tribes...
...Warren still hasn't been convicted of anything, and Emprise still controls all of Arizona's dog tracks. It will be interesting to see if Adamson can pull down any walls with his testimony, as the autumn rolls on into winter. It's about time to reverse a few things in Arizona: time to bell the cat that killed Don Bolles, because he was curious...