Word: mecham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVAN MECHAM, 39, another Arizonan, operating largely on nerve, got into print this week with the first issue of the Phoenix Evening American. To get even this far, Mecham had to cannibalize the corpse of the Arizona Journal-by buying its offset presses right out from under Cattleman Smith's nose, and leaving Smith to scrabble for new presses...
...governorship of Nevada in 1962 and was ignominiously shot down in flames. In 1948 and again in 1950, Cattleman Smith unsuccessfully sought the nomination as Democratic candidate for Arizona Governor-and in neither case did he get any help from Phoenix's two Republican papers. Last year Mecham, running against Arizona's patriarchal U.S. Senator, Democrat Carl Hayden, was the only Republican on the ticket that the two papers did not endorse. Mecham lost...
Seeking his seventh Senate term, Old Frontiersman Carl Hayden, 85, lay ill with a virus infection in Bethesda Naval Hospital. Back home, followers of Republican Evan Mecham, a Phoenix auto dealer, spread rumors that Hayden had suffered a stroke, that he was dying after a heart attack, that doctors at the hospital had been warned under threat of court-martial not to release news of his death until after Election Day. To convince voters that he was still alive and kicking, Hayden called a press conference-only his fourth in 50 years of public life-three days before election. Arizona...
Arizona. Carl Hayden, oldest member of the Senate in both age (85) and tenure (since 1927), seems sure to win over State Senator Evan Mecham, a right-winger backed by the John Birch Society. Most doubts dissolved last month when two conservative Phoenix newspapers strongly endorsed Hayden...
Says he: "I'm not as decrepit as some people say." As proof of the difficulties confronting Mecham, Hayden could point to the fact that in his own party primary he rolled up 113,026 votes-more than his little-known Democratic opponent, Shadegg and Mecham combined...