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...Phoenix and Tucson (pop. 182,500) reach out into the open spaces with acres of factories, airports, suburbs, housing developments and tourist havens, the open spaces give back an atmosphere that makes this a boom with a difference. Uniquely, the movers and shakers share a sense of self-sufficiency (though they live at the mercy of transcontinental railroads and highways), of well-being (though summer temperatures rise to 120° in the shade), of boundless confidence that if the desert can be turned into a thriving oasis nothing in the world is impossible (though they are still pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ARIZONA: THRIVING OASIS Energy Fills the Open Spaces | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

Lube Job. In Tucson, Ariz., after he was flagged down at a school-zone crossing by an eleven-year-old girl school guard who carefully jotted down his license number, startled Motorist Joe Chin was told: "I'll forget all about it for a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

THOMAS W. MITCHAM Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Died. Albert Fisk, 68, pioneer aeronautical engineer who developed the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s automatic pilot and other flight instruments, gyrocompasses, high-intensity searchlights and ship stabilizers during the course of research that spanned two world wars; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...their heels. A few of them have never since been seen in civilized society. Those who were nabbed told pretty much the same story. Each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from points as far distant as Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas and Tucson), just happened to notice lights on in the Barbara house, just happened to stop in for get-well-quick wishes to ailing Joe Barbara, who is a cardiac case. By equal coincidence, Barbara just happened to have on hand a few steaks (200 lbs.) to feed the boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Project Green | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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