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There are only 250 Havasupai in the Canyon now; brothers and cousins have gone to Flagstaff, to Albuquerque, to Los Angeles. Still tourist trade is good during the summer. The men lead packmule trains up and down the Canyon and the women maintain the cabins...
Throughout the morning, the government radio network had been alerting the nation for a major announcement. Loudspeakers had been set up in offices, stores and restaurants, even around the bronze flagstaff of Salisbury's Cecil Square; and at 1:15 on the afternoon of Armistice Day, when Smith came on the air, all of Rhodesia was listening. "In the lives of most nations, there comes a moment when a stand has to be made for principles," said Smith, sniffling with a cold in the head. "We Rhodesians have rejected the philosophy of appeasement. I believe that...
...dating. One night last month, after he had picked her up at home to get an ice-cream cone, they headed for Las Vegas instead to get married. Last week Donald Melvin Boggs, the studious-looking ex-convict, and Radcliff, his willowy, olive-skinned girl friend, were arrested in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was charged with a six-day, three-state crime wave in which four men were bludgeoned and shot to death...
...Republican victory will mean recognition of a Cuban government in exile and U.S. permission for renewed exile raids against Castro. At Miami Stadium, 30 khaki-clad survivors of the Bay of Pigs marched across the rain-soaked baseball diamond to present Miller with a "revered emblem"-a gold-knobbed flagstaff representing their Battalion 2506. It was flagless, they bitterly explained, because their battalion flag had been presented to John F. Kennedy, who had promised that it would be returned "in a free Havana." The emblem was now on tour as a prop in the fund-raising effort for the Kennedy...
...would not even deign to receive the protest. Ever since the fifth attempt on his life last month, he has not dared to show his face in public; he presumably will not even return to his office until workers complete a fourth wall that he has ordered built around Flagstaff House...