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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson, who was virtually unknown outside her native state, was billed as a Minnesota farm wife, and photographed beside a rural telephone in kitchen apron and pulled-back hair. The moral was plain: any woman who could milk a cow could make her mark in Democratic politics. But the build-up did not quite fit the facts...
...erudition (he has written 17 scientific works on the Indians) earned him the title "Scholar to the Navajo." but his Indian flock affectionately called him "Yazzie" (Shortie). For decades he traveled the barren reservation by buckboard and horseback, preaching and studying and helping St. Michael's build up a network of schools, clinics and churches to care for some 11,500 baptized Catholics...
...Among the report's specific recommendations for the first year: spray DDT in barns, homes, under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...
Warning of a big onslaught came Thursday, October 21 when a solitary Dartmouth brave wandered into the Stoughton Hall quarters of one Donald H. Shaw '39 and demanded a lodging for the night. Ughing something about the provisions of a gift of bricks used to build the original Stoughton hall in 1695, he claimed the building's charter entitled all Indians to free lodging...
...Know anybody about six feet tall, maybe 190-200 pounds, not fleshy you know, but hard, hard like, like maybe don Trimble?" That's track coach Jaakko Mikkola's latest line. He's in quest for material to build up his weight squad, sadly depleted as a result of last June graduation...