Why the O’Connor blitz? Read on…

As you can see at a glance, this is pretty much a Sandra O’Connor page today . But hold it! Don’t be too hasty in turning away on grounds that you’ve read and heard enough about Judge O’Connor awreddy. It is true that we have used a lot of copy in the Tucson Citizen lately concerning President Reagan’s nomination of Arizona’s Sandra D. O’Connor to become the first woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. It is a big story, an event of some historical significance, and we’ve covered it as such. We don’t intend to chase you away with a constant barrage of O’Connor, but we feel that the information and comment o~ his page today is somewhat special in that it is the best of the best, culled from an awesome flood of copy as the world’s columnists jumped on the O’Connor theme. There is our “lede” story by Chris Collins of the Citizen’s Washingto~ Bureau , Gannett News Service. Ms. Collins is a former Citizen reporter who returned to home base long enough to find out what makes makes Mrs. O’Connor tick as a judge, a woman, a mother, a warm, breathing human being who can sit steely-eyed and humorless on the bench, then cry later over the effect of her decision. You might be interested to learn that this remarkable Phoenix jurist is a well-to-do country club woman who can strike a tennis ball or golf ball with great precision or cook a gourmet meal. Or that she will pay less than she can afford for a dress, then show it to her husband for his approval. Then there is the sober, well-reasoned