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Artifacts of stone, wood and metal, along with examples of basket weaving, are included in the collection. African, Eskimo and American Indian artwork will be used in the program...
...hewed one (see cut below) full-face, with shell teeth, on a house wall in Sitka? In the same way, there are painted buckskin coats and drums in the Whitney whose spontaneous, eccentric beauty of drawing is little short of breathtaking, while the bizarre and untrammeled inventiveness of some Eskimo masks would have been the envy of Miro or Picasso...
...conceivable, of course, that all the present candidates to succeed him will be rejected in favor of some technocrat with no known enemies, such as Canada's Maurice Strong, 42, a wealthy former financial executive and top-level civil servant who also has the unusual distinction of speaking Eskimo. At a trade convention in Manhattan last week, Strong urged that the new Secretary-General revitalize the organization by drastically cutting its staff and undertaking "a major redeployment of resources." Others have suggested that the U.N. Secretariat abandon its traditional but none too successful efforts at peace making...
...gave way in 1937, when Miss America began to get her Goody Two-Shoes image. Only one Negro has ever competed in the final pageant, although the pageant directors of many states now claim to be looking for black candidates. In Alaska, the search is on for a qualified Eskimo...
...Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo known as Heck Noe (humor is hardly Dent's forte). Others have long pointy ears, or keep secret laboratories in hollow mountains, or come from an advanced civilization in the center of the earth. All are insanely resolved to conquer the world, and all come equipped with secret weapons...