Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known. "From that time," says he, "I was in love with my pygmies." He decided that the Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa are not true pygmies (they are too tall). He lived with the Aetas, pygmies of the Philippines, and the beetle-munching pygmies of North-East New Guinea's Schrader Mountains. Though for obvious reasons his courses have not been jammed with students ("It is not a job that promises much to students. It is not as engineering, no?"), he has fascinated many a future anthropologist with the pygmy's mysterious and often endearing ways. "They...
...stratosphere may be dangerous already and will surely become so unless the testing is stopped. Says Physicist Mitsuo Taketani of Rikkyo University: "The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are not testing now. They are conducting nuclear bomb and weapons maneuvers. The whole population of the world is being used as guinea pigs. When the effects of radiation show up in statistics, it will be too late...
Prison Is a Treat. When he got to New Guinea, he reported that the natives are utterly baffled when they are jailed for wrongdoing: "Prison is a treat. They get three square meals a day and interesting work to do." One slide showed a long-legged white bird that had flown aboard his ship on Trafalgar Day. "We called him Horatio," said Philip. "I must confess I still don't know what sort of bird it was.'' At one point he played a record of some pidgin English. "It is a very old language," he explained...
...Dramat seems to have been happy with the results of the weekend; it has scheduled another festival for next year. Thus Finnegan's symbolic coffin appears not to have been the emblem of the great event after all.A members of the Vassar production staff acts as a solitary guinea pig for the light-testing crews...
Kotos & Bugles. A graduate of George Washington University and a U.S. Army veteran of the New Guinea campaign, Fotouhi set out to convince the Japanese that he had come not only to teach them about the U.S. but to learn as much as he could about Japan. His daughter went to a Japanese school, learned the language, even became adept at sword fighting and playing the koto (harp). In addition to studying the tea ceremony, her mother also took up the koto, and father Fazl learned the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Last month little Farida gave a recital over the radio...