REVEILLE IN ARIZONA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00115R000300040013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 21, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? FEB 2 1 1966
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Publisher Robert B. Choate launched
a new magazine in Arizona this week
and confidently predicted it "will run in
the red." Certainly nothing he says
seems aimed at winning friends or ad-
vertisers. "Phoenix," declares trans-
planted Bostonian Choate, "is a town of
escapists. They have the most shallow'
, comprehension Of society's problems.
There is a staggering apathy and igno-
rance, far surpassing that in the East, in
mat tea's concerning race, economies;
lioisioI f7, and religion."
Appropriately called Reveille, the,
new monthly begins with a circulation of
? 3,000, at first-year budget of $13,500 and
a determination to awaken Arizona's
eon,cience and summon the "escapists"
Lack to reality, Choate-style. "Reveille
will attempt the most exciting features
of Th, New Republic, Le Canard En-
? chaln.'1, Punch and The Texas Observer,"
says the 41-year-old Choate, whose late
father published The Boston Herald,
In one article, Reveille first reminds.
? its readers that Phoenix, with no hous-?
? Ing codc, has "some of the most run-
down, dilapidated housing to be seen in
urban America," then lists slum owners.,
"This ,is the land of hypocrisy," says? .
Choate. "But there's nothing wrong thatl
a little truth wouldn't cum."
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FEB 1 4 1966
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'STARTS MAGAZINE .tion, an organization for VVi.d4recocnhoomaitee dhevaesloirirent. chil-
drenee and A wife who enters i
zestfully into his crusading.
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,Liberal Republican Designs Two nights out of three he is
involved in making speeches or
Publication- to Irritate 4tending meetings. The only
cause he has given up on was
his first one on arriving here:
Special to The New York Times To popularize freshly squeezed
: . PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 13 ? Arizona orange juice. which
was virtually unobtainable.
',Robert B. Choate Jr., a trans- ' For some months the Choates
planted Boston Brahmin, is be- got up at 4 A.M.. to squeeze
stowing on his fellow Arizonans juice and distribute it through-
?this week a characteristic sort out the city. "But." he says.
' of valentine: A magazine de- it turned out to be just an
expensive hobby." i
signed to irritate them. ? .The son of a former publisher!
? ..The?new monthly, entitled of The Boston Herald, Mr. ?
Rev ("to wake up the hide- Coate developed a liking for,
. hounu Establishments of this . Arizona as a prep school stu-
v1/4911. dent in Tucson, before going on
"state," Mr. 'Choate says),
to Harvard and Stanford.
:focus a liberal eye on the many .
things he finds wrong with ? 'Feudalistic .State" I
Arizona, from poverty and ra- ? "I like the state so much that!
cial frictions to its alleged Cul- I can't overlook its faults," he
tural superficialities. says. "A lot goes on in this
feudalistic state because no
It is the latest of a score of one voices any opposition."
:causes aimed at social reforms ? The first issue of Reveille
that the affluent 41-year-old gibes at the Phoenix Art Mu-
-civil engineert4 liberal Republi- seum as being 'filled with mis-
..can has promoted since moving labeled and misidentified paint-
ings and other art of dubious
-here eight. years ago. Many of. S?alue," scrutinizes Phoenix's
., his campaigns have irked peo- slums; criticizes complacent
the status quo. But irritation "Uncle Tom"- Negro leadership;
and examines ethnic attitudes
,bf. Arizona's 15 per cent Alexi-
has been tempered by Mr i
i ban-American population.
Choate's beaming, relaxed ami- ? - "We know this effort is
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.a bility. -d-o-omed to commercial failure in
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- "I don't claim to be always. this ultra conservative area,
tight." he says. "But I'm en- Arr.. Choate says. "But there
iltill needs to be a voice to
;gaged lip to my neck in the: le the Establishments. It's
social revolution of our day." ????1.,dinittedly a shoestring opera-
?n,.. but we're solid for one
Conference. on Poverty
year. and then NO'e'll study thi.
A typical enterprise was the potential and the impact." ?
.Ltaging, through his nonprofit
Mr. Choate disclaims political
' Choate Foundation of a con- ambitions, because "in Arizona
ference on poverty in the South-it scems more a matter of per-
west a year igo. Its 1.700 Par' sonal popularity than of lead-1
ticipants, including Vice Presi-.ership.
.dent Humphrey and Sargent .'I'd rather work with causes
Shriver, Federal antippverty di- than merely mouth words that
rector, contained a cross-section .people want to hear," he says.
of the impoverishedeonle i
13? "I know my ideas are too new
evited "to speak for themselves." ? to 'gain acceptance with many.,
.The roster of other Choat6
'But I must take the stand that
includes Careers f-91:1. feel is right, even if it's un-
popular."
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