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...there are also 125,000 Indians living in Chiapas, and they were what made the area "fabulously interesting" for ethnographic work. For the past thirty years, the Mexican government has been trying to "Ladinoize" the Indians, and Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) has mobilized several studies of culture change in the Indian villages all over Mexico since...
Vogt saw Chiapas for the first time in 1955, when Dr. Alfonso Caso, director of INI, invited him to Mexico to visit potential sites for applied anthropology. Chiapas seemed ideal for several reasons. First, the Indians in Chiapas are the descendants of the ancient Mayans, so knowledge of their customs goes as far back as the Spanish Conquest. Second, the Indian communities are in the midst of a slow urbanization process that is challenging many of their traditions. Third, the countryside was beautiful and the climate hospitable...
Javits is a compulsive leader and ini tiator. Last week, breaking a longstanding rule of neutrality in primary contests, he sent a telegram of support to moderate Republican William J. Casey in his contest for New York's Nassau County congressional nomination against Goldwaterite Steven B. Derounian. "I can't even vote for Casey," said the Senator. "But when Goldwater said Casey was a phoney, I felt I had to make a statement...
Last week came word from New Zealand that Maori musicality has at last produced a likely concert singer. Ini Te Wiata, 34, a logger with a resonant bass, has made such a hit with his countrymen (and with thousands of U.S. Marines in wartime New Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend...
From the railroad town of Kämärä the main body of the army began closing in on Säiniö, which a spearhead had reached last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 26). Then, veering to the left, the attack beat against the Finns' right flank guarding the Gulf and the fortress of Koivisto. Over the clean new snow, waves of Russians crouching behind their tanks swarmed over the Finns' weakened positions. Above the fog 200 Russian pursuit planes circled to keep off Finnish aircraft. On the 21st day of battle the Russians reached the Gulf...