Word: arizonan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concept of team investigation was somehow ineffective or sloppy. Rather, the problem is that the forces that led to Don Bolles's death in the first place continue to prevent necessary reforms in Arizona. The state's natives knew what to expect from the beginning. "These Easterners," exclaimed one Arizonan with exasperation, "they all come out here and flap their wings and think everything is going to change overnight. Well, it hasn't. They pack their bags and leave, and everything stays just the same." There have been reforms, of course, but they have been infrequent and half-hearted, designed...
...flew into Wisconsin, where Mo Udall's campaign against Carter seemed to be lagging and close friends report Humphrey agreed they should support the Arizonan. He was unable to resist flying into New York where he gave an exhilarating speech to a conference of U.S. mayors, overshadowing earlier appearances by Carter, Udall and Scoop Jackson...
...oldtime Arizonan, when asked by a visitor what the Arizonans did when the temperatures reach 115 , answered, "Hell, we just go out on the porch, take off our skin and sit around in our bones...
Died. Carl T. Hayden, 94, the quiet, influential Arizonan whose 57 years in Congress set a record; in Mesa, Ariz. Hayden once remarked that his four-vote defeat in a college election caused him to run scared ever after. He became the state's first Congressman in 1912 and served eight terms in the House and seven more in the Senate before retiring in 1969. A Democrat who preferred cloakroom bargaining to Senate-floor oratory, Hayden became chairman of the Appropriations Committee and doggedly supported bills for Arizona land reclamation, road construction and power development...
Rehnquist is an active Goldwater-style Republican who worked as a precinct committeeman during the presidential campaign of his fellow Arizonan. But even those who disagree with his conservative views concede his keen intelligence and professional skill. Born in Milwaukee in 1924, Rehnquist went to college and law school at Stanford, made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated first in his law class, and then won the honor of serving a year as legal clerk to the late Justice Robert H. Jackson...