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Rated as a "physiological technician," Specialist 3rd Class Walter M. Moore from Anniston, Ala., was assigned to the Air Force team operating the high-altitude chamber at Davis Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Ariz. Each day Moore, 19, and five other jet-age airmen, like similar crews at 40 other bases, carefully nursed in-training plane crews on simulated flights into thin-air altitudes. A straight-A student in off-duty courses at the University of Arizona, Specialist Moore soon learned on his Air Force duty how altitude affects the human body. Without oxygen a man blacks out above...
...year) of the Government-held General Aniline & Film Corp. When political pressures eased him out of the job in 1955, he tried to start his own planemaking company. It never got off the ground. Last week Jack Frye, still determined to conquer a new air world, was in Tucson to seek a manufacturer for a propeller plane he designed. As he was driving a rented car, a speeding station wagon ran through a stop sign and broadsided into him. At 54, the man who had flown 7,000 hours without a serious accident to help pioneer the air age died...
Pothered by an ache in the jawbone, weedy Pianist Van Cliburn dropped in on a Tucson dentist for some overdue drilling, canceled all concerts until the throb in his ivories dwindled to a pianissimo. Mumbled Van, his gift for hyperbole undiminished: "I'm thrilled to death it happened here, in the land...
...where Goldwater changed shirts for a dinner with the Willcox Women's Republican Club. Not till 10 p.m., when a golden quarter-moon was sinking into the saguaro, did the campaigner call it a day. Taking off from a scrub-lined strip without lights, he flew into Tucson, checked in at the Pioneer Hotel, took off his shirt, pants and shoes, ordered a brace of Old Crows (splashed with water, but no ice), swallowed a Miltown tablet and went to sleep like a winner...
...TUCSON (ARIZ.) DAILY STAR...