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LOVE WITH THE PROPER SEPTUAGENARIAN
BOY MEETS GIRL, SUN CITY-STYLE.
By Anna Dooling
Published: May 23, 1990
When Marie Kelso moved to Sun City five years ago, she was not interested in meeting a man. She was eighty then, and met one anyway. It happened at a pinochle game. He...
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Suntracks
ROCK OF AGEDGOLDEN OLDIES RAISE CANE!
By David Koen
Published: May 23, 1990
Yo! Sun City! Get ready to rock 'n' roll! That hip-swiveling sound is bound to move next door any day now, and there's nothing you can do to keep it out. No, we're not t...
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Suntracks
GERIATRIC & THE PACEMAKERS FOR SUN CITY MUSIC LOVERS, IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE
By David Koen
Published: May 23, 1990
At any given moment in Sun City tonight, it's a good bet that some nightclub act will be playing "New York, New York." Lou Ives, who has played Sun City with his wife Lou An...
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News
OVER-THE-HILL STREET BLUESLET'S SEE, NOW, WHAT'S THAT DADBURNED CODE FOR "POODLE AT LARGE"?
By Ward Harkavy
Published: May 23, 1990
It's 2:05 p.m. on a Wednesday. We're working the second-shift patrol out of Sun City Sheriff's Posse headquarters. My partner's name is Jack Goodrich. Moved out here from Om...
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News
I PASSED FOR OLD
THEY TRIED TO TELL HER SHE'S TOO YOUNG . . .
By P. J. Seagraves
Published: May 23, 1990
I was an illegal alien in Del Webb's community of oldsters. For seven months in 1984 and 1985, I lived in a Sun City condominium owned by my parents. Because I was only...
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News
CAP'N DAVE'S SENIOR TRIPA GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE LAND THAT YOUTH FORGOT!
By Cap'n Dave
Published: May 23, 1990
Like most people, my only regular exposure to Sun City-ites is what I hear them say on talk radio. "Okay, next we go to Raymond in Sun City," the host says. "Ray, tha...
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Columns
MECHAM GOES NOT SO GENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: May 23, 1990
Some scenes cling to your mind. They are so powerful that they are impossible to block out. For me, there will always be that remarkable television footage of an enrage...
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Cafe
BORSCHT BELT
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: May 16, 1990
Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. Dill, dill, dill. My faithful dining accomplice Goat and I are eating dinner at the White Nights Russian Restaurant and Deli on Phoe...
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News
GO, YOU ARE DISMISSED
FOR COACH BILL WESTPHAL, A SMALL LOAN TO A PLAYER ENDED UP AS THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER
By Paul Rubin
Published: May 16, 1990
PRODUCTION: hit list measure includes five inches for an addition on Monday. Please save that amount of space. The day after Grand Canyon University fired basketball coach B...
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Suntracks
ROCKIN' ROOKIEDOUG STONE ROLLS FROM NOWHERE TO NASHVILLE
By Larry Crowley
Published: May 16, 1990
In the mid-Sixties, a country newcomer named Doug Stone warmed up for Loretta Lynn. But instead of immediately reaping the success surely coming to an unknown who'd opened f...
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Columns
DON'T MESS WITH THE MARSHAL
YOU'LL GET RUN OUT OF DODGE. LIKE THE SPAN FAMILY.
By Michael Lacey
Published: May 16, 1990
This is what Pete Span believes. Two United States marshals went to the home of his elderly father in search of a fugitive. Without a warrant, the officers ransacked th...
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Suntracks
RECORDINGS
By John Blanco, Larry Crowley, David Koen, Louis Windbourne and Galen Herod
Published: April 25, 1990
Where the Heck Is Mr. Fun? (Or Up and Down the Donut With Frank) (Local tape) Galen Herod has always come off like a lovable spaz on stage, regaling audiences with herky-jerky pos...
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Cafe
HOLIDAY
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: April 25, 1990
Future Super Bowls and past papal visits aside, we probably couldn't have picked a busier night to visit Frascati Ristorante at Centerpoint in Tempe. That's right, faithful ...
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Suntracks
BACK IN THE USSR THIN WHITE ROPE CONQUERSTHE SOVIET UNION AND LEAVES WITH A SILVER ALBUM
By Louis Windbourne
Published: April 25, 1990
When Thin White Rope visited the Soviet Union in late 1988, the band brought back more than caviar and a photo of the Kremlin. It experienced firsthand the early rumblings of a r...
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News
BAN THE BURN
By J. W. Casserly
Published: April 25, 1990
Suntans, once the gift of Mother Nature and now a commodity purveyed under tanning lamps all over town, are about to be placed on a par with some kinds of drugs. Just as pre...
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Columns
THE SLICK AND SLIPPERY SYMINGTON CAMPAIGN
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: April 25, 1990
J. Fife Symington III grew up on a 500-acre estate in the blue-blood Maryland hunt country. There were neighbors with names like S. Bonsal White Jr. and Benjamin Howell Griswold ...
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Columns
LEAPIN' LIZARDS
By Michael Burkett
Published: April 25, 1990
It seemed my son was just starting to get the hang of having a sister when he said, "Hey, dad. When Jessica gets a little older, I'm going to buy her a Barbie doll!" He prom...
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Feature
Foot Soldier of the Planet Canny
Entrepreneur James Devine picks up after you
By Paul Rubin
Published: April 18, 1990
James Devine picks up an empty Silver Bullet near the curb of a downtown Phoenix street. It's 7:30 on an early-April morning. He crushes the can with his boot, and tosses it into...
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Columns
Will We Ever Escape The Ethical Pygmy?
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: April 18, 1990
I'd forgotten the sheer madhouse excitement of it all. At the time, it was both energizing and frightful. Governor Evan Mecham electrified the entire state as he took us on a wil...
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Cafe
SALVADOR DELI
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: April 18, 1990
The glossy travel poster on the wall boasts tropical forest, sandy beach and blue ocean. "El Salvador--en el corazon de America" it announces. Below the poster is a 1989 cal...
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