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Slightly costlier (by about $20-$45 for a full set of woods and irons) than steel, aluminum-shafted clubs have received impressive testimonials from the pros. Arnold Palmer used them to win this year's Los Angeles and Tucson Opens, is now marketing his own line of clubs. Billy Casper, Sam Snead, Gary Middlecoff and Julius Boros all are experimenting with aluminum clubs, and George Archer claims that his new aluminum-shafted driver gives him an extra 15 yards of distance on every tee shot. That, says Archer, helps account for the fact that...
EARL F. CODNER Tucson, Ariz...
...standby plan, under which any passenger who cannot be accommodated on the first flight to his destination is guaranteed a seat on the next one. Even bus companies wince as Frontier boasts that "a bus ticket and $5" will buy a jet ride from Denver to St. Louis or Tucson or Billings, Mont...
...fairly typical consolidation precipitated the hearings. To save the failing Tucson Daily Citizen in 1940, the Arizona Daily Star combined its advertising and business departments with the other paper. Both remained separate editorially. In 1965, the Star chose to sell. Under the 1940 agreement, the now prosperous Citizen had first option: it bought the Star with the explanation that it would resell the paper as soon as a suitable purchaser could be found. At that point, the Justice Department filed suit not only to break up the merger but to nullify the original joint operating agreement as well...
Testifying in favor of the bill, Tucson Citizen Publisher William A. Small Jr. contended that Tucson (pop. 257,000) was simply not a big enough city to support two independent dailies. The Citizen, he said, had been on the "brink of death," and the agreement with the Star had been a "lifesaving device." Jack Howard, president of Scripps-Howard, a chain with a total of seven joint operating agreements, agreed. The effect of the bill, he said, is not to "restrain competition but to preserve it to the fullest extent possible, to preserve two or more healthy papers where there...