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Navajo Indians are in demand as workers in the sugar-beet fields of the West, for, unlike braceros (from Mexico), they are not protected by treaty regulations. Navajos are cheap; they keep their mouths shut and they do as they are told. When the season ended at Burley, Idaho, a Navajo beet picker named Kee Chee dumbly obeyed orders to get his family on a chartered bus for the long ride home to New Mexico-even though it meant taking his sick, seven-month-old daughter out of a hospital at nearby Bear River City, Utah...
...wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when the pie was cut, to cause a "diverting Hurley-Burley amongst the Guests...
...women's division the semi-finals are still to be played. Joan Peck will face Sally Burley and Elaine Adams is to play Issabelle Ostroff...
...went to Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
Among those present was a solid nucleas of former Crimson lacrosse (and football) stars: Dick Bernard, last year's All-New England goalie; Eddie Davis and Ned Dowey, bulwarks of the '46 football team: Jay Burley, captain of the '47 lacrosse team: and Don Louria and Don Snow, of last year's squad...