Word: saguaro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candy from the Sky. From Flagstaff, Ariz., eastward to Fruitland, N. Mex., and from the pinon groves of Utah southward to the stands of saguaro cactus near the Mexican border, the six-state area last week dug out of disaster. The roar of plow and plane engines resounded as Southwesterners raced to clear the roads and rescue the stranded before fresh blizzards came sweeping down, as U.S. weathermen had predicted. The known dead totaled 15, most of them on the Navajo Reservation, which covers an area nearly as large as Ireland. Arizona state officials feared that more may have frozen...
Barry Goldwater still putters in his Phoenix saguaro cactus garden, where he has rigged heat lamps that glow automatically whenever freezing temperatures threaten. Nelson Rockefeller steals moments at his hifi, sits fascinated by the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman bands of the '30s. Dick Nixon thrills to the rough (but losing) play of New York's hockey Rangers. Maggie Smith sits with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number...