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...Tucson's morning Arizona Daily Star (circ. 44,000) was up for sale and, at an asking price of $8,000,000, it seemed a good buy. Profits were high and the paper owned valuable real estate besides. Prospective purchasers ranged from Robert White, co-publisher of the prosperous Mexico (Mo.) Ledger, to Minneapolis Star & Tribune President John Cowles. But the out-of-towners never made it. The afternoon Tucson Daily Citizen (circ. 45,000) beat them to the draw by anteing up $10 million for the Star because of "a desire to see this strong, outspoken newspaper remain...
Dean Burch, a mild-mannered and button-down-neat attorney from Tucson, was plucked out of anonymity in July and appointed by Barry Goldwater to be national chairman of the Republican Party. During the campaign he scarcely gained any prominence...
...Tucson to make a strategic withdrawal and allow his party to settle peaceably on a chairman who stands for more than one faction of the Party...
Arizona: Republican Richard Kleindienst, 41, a Goldwater field director before San Francisco, is an effervescent, effective campaigner, while Democrat Sam Goddard, 45, a Harvard-educated Tucson attorney, seems ill at ease on the speaker's stand. Kleindienst is favored to succeed Republican Paul Fannin, who is now running for Goldwater's Senate seat...
Well, no, it wasn't that Raul Castro -he's still waiting 90 miles off Florida. This Raul Castro, 48, is a Tucson, Ariz., superior court judge who was born in Mexico, became a U.S. citizen and graduated from Arizona State College in 1939, then served in Mexico for the State Department before going into law practice in 1949. His knowledge of Central America, plus long, faithful labors for the Democratic Party, plus perhaps some sly thoughts about the name, led President Johnson to tap him for the El Salvador...