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...mainstream of American life. They have been, as well, the least conspicuous and most docile of minorities-until recently. Now they are on a warpath of sorts again, armed this time with old treaties and new court writs and led by sharpshooting lawyers whose allies include, to the chagrin of many non-Indians, the U.S. Government. Their stated aim: to recover huge swatches of land and some of the rights they yielded during the inexorable sweep of expanding American civilization. Their campaign seems to raise the improbable but not frivolous question: Should the country-or sizable parts...
...boneless chicken, past a bowl of goldfish knitting woolen sweaters, past a lobster wearing a bib that said "Kosher," and out into the yard, where I hid in six-foot tall blades of grass which were reading copies of Pravda. I made it to my car, but to my chagrin, it was being eaten--by the very dog whose invitation to whist I had foolishly declined earlier in the afternoon...
Urban Machine. To the chagrin of some Parisians, the competition was won by two foreigners, Italy's Renzo Piano and Britain's Richard Rogers. In the midst of Beaubourg's crumbling brick and mortar, they proceeded to construct what they called a "living urban machine." They planned a six-story building to be formed literally inside out -structural supports on the outside, along with a formidable array of ducts, gantries, movable mezzanines and color-coded pipes for heating, electricity, air conditioning and fire control. Attached to one external facade is a huge escalator with transparent walls, illustrating...
Ruby W. Ebert Chagrin Falls, Ohio...
...instead of chagrin, a sense of relief seems to prevail among many Southerners on Capitol Hill. Says South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings: "When I first came up here, they had all of us Southerners meeting around [Georgia's Senator] Dick Russell. Later on we met for a while around [Louisiana's] Allen Ellender and decided what to do about a busing amendment. Those days are gone. We don't see our interest now as being any different from any other section of the country." Adds Florida's Senator Chiles: "A lot of new Southern political talent...