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...hands with each of them. Then she climbed into her waiting car and rode to Clarence House, past rows of silent, bareheaded subjects lining the road, mile after mile. As she stepped from the car, a guardsman tugged on a halyard and sent the Royal Standard fluttering up the flagstaff of Elizabeth's house...
...service with the Royal Navy, decided he would see the most interesting part of the United States standing by roadsides with his thumb up on route from Boston to Los Angeles. This letter, written on the eve of the All-Indian Pow-wow from a hotel room in Flagstaff, Arizons, records some of the impressions of a Public School Britisher confronting P. J. Booster...
...some against children, committed under the influence of peyote. Last week Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, longtime medical missionary among the Navajos (and longtime foe of the Indian Bureau), reported that he had just heard of two cases of infanticide and one of fatal child neglect caused by peyote. At Flagstaff's Navajo Ordnance Depot many Indians were unable to work for days at a time after peyote jags. At least one-third of the 61,000 Navajos are estimated to be addicts...
Social Customs. In the evening, a German Legionnaire stands at attention saluting the French tricolor as it flutters from a tall flagstaff. Another German Legionnaire hauls it down. It might be for the last time. But in the Cercle Sportif, the club by the river bank, the French continue to act as they have always done. The Chinese servant is still fairly polite, calls people Honorable or Venerable One as he shuffles around with bottles of cognac and Perrier water...
Mars has an atmosphere; therefore it must have weather. Starting with this thesis-as thin as the Martian atmosphere itself-Seymour L. Hess of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz, set out to chart Martian weather. He reports his findings in the current Sky and Telescope...