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...Indolent Boys--new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday presented by Harvard Native American Program. Agassiz Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets available by calling 495-4912, at Sanders Theatre Box Office in Memorial Hall, and at the Agassiz Theatre Box Office...
...Indolent Boys--new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday presented by Harvard Native American Program with audience discussion following. Agassiz Theatre at 3 p.m. Tickets available by calling 495-4912, at Sanders Theatre Box Office in Memorial Hall, and at Agassiz Theatre Box Office. Sunday...
...that the Texas Panhandle, where he grew up, was too crowded and expensive for cattlemen. He headed north "for cheap grass," to the border of Rosebud and Custer counties, just above Miles City, Mont. Mathers did not trail a herd a thousand miles across the powdery plains, fending off Kiowa and Comanche, or ford the snake-infested Nueces River. Instead, he put 200 Herefords on the Santa Fe Railroad, climbed into his blue Oldsmobile and rolled smoothly up Highway 83. He was there in two days. (Lonesome Dove's McCrae and Call took months.) Mathers bought up old homestead land...
...would be an expensive machine to lose in combat, so the Army began searching for a cheaper, smaller scout and observation chopper. It settled on the OH-58 Kiowa. The contractor, Bell Helicopter, apparently followed the time-honored practice of "buying into" a contract by submitting an artificially low initial estimate. Within two years, the projected cost of the total scout program doubled, from $1.3 billion to $2.7 billion, even though the number of aircraft to be bought was reduced from 720 to 578. Part of the problem is that the scout's complex laser sight has run into...
...lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during a 24-hour storm. Observed Rod Johnson, a federal agriculture official: "The eastern three-fourths of Kiowa County is moving...