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...cactus-studded set. Her cheeks and shoulders are wholesomely freckled, her honey-blond hair cropped short and glowing in the desert sun. Dressed in simple cotton and sensible shoes, she looks like a handsome pioneer woman, which is essentially what she plays in her television movie now filming in Tucson...
...researchers, Microbiologist Memory Elvin-Lewis of Washington University in St. Louis and Marlys Witte, a professor of surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson, told of a black teenager who showed up at St. Louis City Hospital in 1968 with chronic genital swelling. The youngster, then 15, admitted that he was sexually active; laboratory tests disclosed that he had a severe case of chlamydia, a common but curable venereal disease. Doctors prescribed several antibiotics and put him on a low-salt diet. Nothing worked. His muscles wasted away, and his lungs filled with fluid. Robert R. died...
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...Todd filed her tax return after typing on her 1040 form, "Signed involuntarily under penalty of statutory punishment." The Internal Revenue Service fined her $500 for filing a "frivolous" return. Todd and the courts battle on. Here and there, sanctuary, sanctuary, sanctuary is all the word. Kay Kelly of Tucson, for example, was placed under house arrest for refusing to give the name of the Guatemalan she had sheltered. She contended her right to keep silent on the name was a religious issue...
...specializing in the Southwest and the American Indian. Gradually she built a collection of more than 10,000 volumes, a repository that scholars, authors, regional libraries and Old West freaks came to rely on. Nowadays the shop has even become a stop on the tour-bus routes out of Tucson. Her customers aren't the sort whose taste runs to Zane Grey -- no, they are more likely looking to flesh out a study of, say, Texas John Slaughter with a document first published when the century was young. Winifred either has it, will find it or will spin...