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...Tucson, Ariz...
Though he was favored to win (TIME, April 28), Moderate Mo Udall found himself in trouble on election night when the returns gave Yuma County to Arch-conservative Matheson. Only by scoring heavily in Tucson's Pima County did Mo Udall go on to win by the squeaky margin of 51,318 to 49,263, which was close enough to encourage Republicans for the future. At his victory press conference, Udall made no secret of his belief that his brother had hurt him: "I had counted on winning Yuma County. I lost it." In defeat, Mac Matheson...
Asked about his favorite U.S. vacation spot, Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally) Addams gave Town & Country Magazine a reply that left the city fathers of Tucson, Ariz., wondering whether they had been panned or praised. Said Addams, whose macabre drawings feature a ghoul-infested mansion occupied by a gaunt female vampire, a fat male fiend and a child ogre: "I have never been there, but from what I hear, it sounds like my kind of town...
...popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came to the National Watershed Conference in dry-as-dust Tucson, Ariz., last week, knew better than to bother with such far-out schemes. Even the keynote speaker, Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr, who mentioned grimly that U.S. cities now tolerate twice as much sewage in their drinking water as was considered safe in 1955, held out little hope that the situation...
...would bring more desalting installations. But cities in well-watered regions are better off. New York pipes pure and plentiful water from the Catskill Mountains 70 miles away for 10? per 1,000 gal.-less than two-fifths the lowest possible cost of freshened sea water. No one in Tucson last week thought it likely that New-York would ever dip into the costly...