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...watch Japanese warriors play vigorous sword games on a stage surrounded on two sides by water and backed by a thunderous Nagare wall. They smash one another over the head with wooden poles, shouting noises of guttural rage, bobbing, feinting, taking clever steps backward and occasionally falling by accident into the water. You can try on a Panamanian straw hat, test a Nicaraguan wooden spear, and talk to a stranger in California while you stare into his eyes on television-telephone. Alaskan Chilkat Indians will tell you how to make totem poles: start by floating the log in a lake...
View It Yourself. Not all the fair's good shows, however, are on film or indoors. Several times a day, five Mexican Indians climb a giddy, 114-ft. pole outside the Mexican pavilion. One begins to dance on top of the pole; his four companions lean over backward and fall toward the ground. They are tied to long ropes which are wrapped tightly around the summit of the pole. Hanging upside down, all four men begin to spin in accelerating, expanding, awesomely descending circles as the ropes unwind, righting themselves just in time to drop lightly to the pavement...
Professor Banfield is also the author of Political Influence and The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. His collaborator, Professor Wilson, has written Negro Politics: the Search for Leadership and The Amateur Democrat...
...major survival aid proved to be a new plastic air bag tucked into the rear of one seat; inflated before impact, it spread backward in two sections-one over the feet and legs of the dummy in the seat behind, the other over its upper body-and cushioned that "passenger" against impact injury. Such bags, which can be inflated by a switch in the pilot's compartment when a crash seems probable, are the first devices for individual passenger safety under serious consideration by the industry since the safety belt...
...bill, which many senators considered a step backward for anti-discrimination in housing, specified that rooming houses renting to four or fewer boarders would not be covered by the Housing Act which was passed last year. That act forbids discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing offered publicly, with the exception of the second apartment of an owner-occupied two family house. It is widely considered one of the best such anti-discrimination laws in the nation...