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REPUBLIC MAIL d) d) Lthe Arizona Republic Sunday, November 29, 1987 Christmas for Caring When two stepsisters turned 12 and 13, there should have been a double celebration. "But we just said, 'Happy birthday, and that was about it, the matriarch of their central Phoenix family says. B3j Obituaries B16 uck mmoirroir image of Mectem, critics say Founder of drive looking of challenges and that his worst enemy is between his nose and his chin. They say, in effect, that Buck is just like Mecham. "If there is any difference between Ev Mecham and Ed Buck, it is that Ed Buck does not hold elective office and, like Mecham, does not deserve to," said Mike Morgan, who helped Buck put the recall movement together early this year.

"Both are very negative about the political process and for the state." Buck laughs derisively at such comments. "The only thing I can say about my strategy is, 'It Buck said. "It's easy to take a shot at Ed Buck. But it's not easy to take a shot at Ed Buck, Garry Smith, Naomi Harward and the rest of the entire recall steering committee." Most of the people taking shots at Buck, however, are those who worked in the very recall movement that made Buck a household name in Arizona. Ronni Miller, who worked as the recall's statewide coordinator for a month before quitting, described Buck as being "like a man stuck in the 'terrible "He is totally self-centered, to-' tally self-consumed, without a shred of human compassion," Miller said.

"I disliked him in-' six "1 4 tSr' Phoenix millionaire and political activist Ed Buck spends a moment in quiet relaxation at his Squaw Peak Sean BradyThe Arizona Republic home with his golden retriever, Sly. Expensive road to nowhere is unlikely to get anywhere for the next set By MARTIN VAN DER WERF Arizona Republic ii the life of Ed Buck moves pretty his interests tossed this way, that. 5 His friends can't reach him on the telephone, his business address is constantly changing, and he can be fickle about where he wants to direct his energies. I But one thing is clear. When Buck sets his mind to something, it gets done.

At age 33, he has made a million dollars, lives in a mountainside home with a breathtaking view of Phoenixj had a modeling career and how is basking in the knowledge that he has marshaled the most successful grass-roots campaign in Arizona history, the recall movement against Gov. Evan Mecham. Nothing has slowed Buck's momentum. Not his admission that he is a homosexual, and not charges against him of tampering with a prescription for a painkiller or of disturbing the peace after he grabbed the crotch of a friend in an adult bookstore. 1 But, now, even after more than 386,000 signatures of people wanting to dump Mecham from office were filed with the state, people are criticizing Buck's leadership ability.

They say that Buck won't accept advice, is unbending when someone does not agree with his opinions The Princeton Review has been launched in various pockets of the Valley, with an emphasis on the northeast Valley. "We concentrate our efforts on Scottsdale," said Donna Sinuk, a local Princeton Review instructor. The Scottsdale area has a greater percentage of upper-income families than the rest of the Valley. Sinuk said it also has a greater proportion of families of Jewish or Asian backgrounds, who she said traditionally place a high value on education. Preparation courses for college-entrance: exams are a growing business, springing up in response to aspirations to get into the "right" school, often a Harvard or a Stanford, with highly selective academic standards.

now is utilized go fishing along Meadow and Alpine. In the 70 miles that separate Morenci from Hannagan Meadow, there are 525 sharp curves and many steep drop-offs, said Greenlee County Supervisor H.J. "Hank" Miller. The road can be too frightening for people driving recreational vehicles or pulling trailers, county Administrator Robert Stokes added. When it snows, the road is closed.

Greenlee County officials think a wider, straighter road, such as the one that never was completed, would make the drive less perilous. Tourists and their dollars would begin passing through the area's economically depressed communities, Stokes predicted. The supervisors wrote to Gov.y Evan Mecham on Oct. .5, shortly after he had dedicated a new bridge By SAM NEGRI Southern Arizona Bureau CLIFTON Around here, they call it the million-dollar road. More accurately, it is a $4.4 million road.

It is wide. It is unpaved. It parallels the San Francisco River. But it is only 6 miles long, and it ends abruptly in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't supposed to be that way.

The road was started in 1968 but abandoned three years later, because, as Hollis Jones says, $4.4 million "is awfully expensive for six miles of road." Jones, an area supervisor with the Arizona Department of Transportation, said the road doesn't really have a name but is sometimes referred to as the "Safford-Springerville Highway," probably Charles KrejcsiThe Arizona Republic by residents who want to picnic or the nearby San Francisco River. This bridge, dedicated earlier, this year, leads to an unpaved road goes nowhere. The road Psycho' tips may help boost SAT score Scholastic Aptitude Tests Here are the average SAT scores for college-bound seniors from 1972 to 1987. The 1987 seniors who have taken the test number 1,000,426, an increase of 8 over the previous year. 520 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Male I Ml! i I I I 480 i 1 i I Q.

I I I I 420- Male -1 jr1" I verbal score Fema 1 1 i I verbal score I Phoenix W- Clifton The Arizona Republic because of its good intentions. It was the start of a planned realignment of U.S. 666, the Coro-nado Trail, a scenic but harrowing drive that climbs about 4,500 feet from Morenci to Hannagan i i i '80 '81 '82 '83 '84 '85 '86 '87 Knight-Ridder Graphics Network in uptown Sedona, which is ruled by a v. circle these psycho words as correct answers on the SAT; because the words mirror their feelings. But more likely than not, the words are the wrong answers! They can trap careless students who don't take the time to find the right answers.

So preaches the Princeton Review, a sassy SAT-preparation course. It purports to teach students not how to study for the all-important college-entrance test, but how to beat it. "They convince you ow stupid this test is," Kraus said of the Princeton Review's authors. In the final week of his preparation course for the SAT, Kraus bought the authors' argument. He also bought the Princeton Review's six-week course and individualized tutoring for $495.

Charles KrejsciThe Arizona Republic governed by Yavapai County. The thinking is that students need help to get the best possible score on either the SAT or the American College Testing Program exam. "Help" comes in a variety of forms, ranging from a thorough review of high school course matter to familiarization with the "tricks" -that test makers allegedly use to trip up nervous students. The Princeton Review is the1 newest comer to the pack of preparation courses available in Arizona. It promises students a 100-point gain on their SAT score 1600 is perfect or they can retake the preparation course for free.

Another outfit, the New York-based Stanley H. Kaplan Educa- Score, B5 rated, about 19 square miles and 8,500 people, is governed by officials in Flagstaff and Prescott. West Sedona is under the domain of Yavapai County; uptown Sedona is ruled by Coconino County. The one thing both groups agree on is that few people are completely happy with this circumstance. "We need better police protection, better streets, better planning," said Ron Bricker, co-chairman of Citizens for Incorporation.

But incorporation, said Harry Leacock, chairman of Save Our Sedona, is not the way to get them and would result in increased taxes. Leacock recently advocated moving the Coconino County line to the Sedona, B6 Courses charge up to $495 for aid on college admissions By MARY JO PITZL The Arizona Republic Matthew Kraus was poring over list of nouns, on the lookout for "psycho" words. His finger ran across "boredom." It tripped over to "suppression." There they were. Psycho words. Words that connote negative, dreary and derogatory feelings; words that describe the way most students feel when they're in the throes of taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test, said Kraus, a senior at Arcadia High School.

Weary students are likely to Coconino County. West Sedona is Incorporation shuffle: Sedona to vote again mmmmmmmmmmimmm mmmsmmmmmims tPSMMMM i i ri 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 Source: The College Board Vehicles are parked-in front of stores 4UUt wmmmmmmmmmn i-Mj prill By FRED SMITH Yavapai County Bureau SEDONA Voters on Wednesday will decide whether they want a change in government or more of the same. The issue, which has been the subject of great discourse in this community for years, is whether to incorporate the bustling area, which straddles the line separating Coconino and Yavapai counties. "Yes," says Citizens for Incorporation, which fought unsuccessfully for incorporation in October, 1985. "No," says Save Our Sedona, the anti-incorporation group that figures municipal status will be too costly.

The area thii would be incorpo.