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Horse, the Sioux chief who was captured and killed in 1877, after the slaughter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand. In 1939 Crazy Horse's nephew, Henry Standing Bear, who knew that Ziolkowski had done some work on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, asked him to carve a Crazy Horse memorial. Said Standing Bear, after a long look at the faces of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore: "We want the white man to know that the Indian had heroes...
...rapidly acquired ensemble discipline. It seems more successful with the works of Hungarian composers (Bartok, Kodaly) than in the standard repertory, stronger in the string section than in the brasses. To beef up the brass, Conductor Rozsnyai recently hired four Austrians; he also recruited an American violinist, clarinetist and horn player...
Representing the United Ministry for this season will be: The Reverend Howard C. Wallace on July 7 and 21; The Reverend E. Spencer Parsons July 14 and August 11; on July 28 The Reverend Henry E. Horn; and on August 4 and 18 The Reverend Leonard G. Clough...
City v. Country. Cigarette smoking increases with a movement from rural areas to bigger towns and large cities; so does the incidence of lung cancer. When Hammond and Horn adjusted their figures to allow for the smoking difference (50% of rural men smoke cigarettes, 62½% of big-city men), they found that the lung-cancer death rate was still one-third higher in the cities. This might be a reflection of better diagnosis in major medical centers, or a result of big-city air pollution...
Researchers Hammond and Horn are not physicians, but practitioners of biometrics-the study of disease by analyzing the medical who, what, when and how-many of people in health and illness. Baltimore-born Hammond, 45, has an Sc.D. in biology; Horn, 41, native of Rochester, N.Y., has a Ph.D. in psychology. Both were heavy cigarette smokers when their first findings came in four years ago; now they smoke pipes...