Word: arizona
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...Navajo Reservation stretches across 16 million acres of sagebrush desert and red sandstone mesas in three Southwestern states-Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The land was ceded to the Navajos in 1868, after the Indians had been battered into submission by Colonel Kit Carson. Today the reservation is in effect a separate nation-state, subject to neither state laws nor taxes. It is frontier country, where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power...
...poky Aerocrane probably will never be practical as a people mover, but it could be economically put to other uses. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, a strong advocate of lighter-than-air vehicles, is encouraging the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee to study the potential of blimps, dirigibles and hybrid airships as bulk cargo transporters during hearings this summer. All American Engineering already foresees such chores for its Aerocranes as lifting logs out of remote timberland, unloading container ships that are too large to come into port, and delivering fully prefabricated houses directly from factory to home site...
From Wyncote, Jackson went to Arizona State University as a promising halfback on a football scholarship. When he started blasting baseballs out of Phoenix Municipal Stadium, the big-league scouts turned up in droves and Jackson signed with the Kansas City A's after his sophomore year for an $85,000 bonus...
...salary, Jackson earns another $100,000 a year from commercial endorsements and from the Phoenix land company in which he owns a half interest. United Development Inc. reflects the personalities of Jackson and his white partner and closest friend, Gary Walker, a former insurance salesman and Arizona State alumnus. Employees can take a break any time to play a piano placed outside office quarters, and they will soon be able to observe an "artist-in-residence" at work down the hall. They are encouraged to attend corporate encounter-group sessions several times a year to air both their office gripes...
...bill that may bring some relief to hard-pressed publishing companies that use second-class mail to deliver newspapers and magazines. Authored by Wyoming's Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, and co-sponsored by 22 other Senators including Massachusetts' Edward M. Kennedy and Arizona's Barry Goldwater, the measure would give newspapers and magazines an extra three years to absorb soaring second-class rates (TIME, Feb. 25). Under the present Postal Service schedule of phased increases, periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 218% more to use the mails in 1976 than...