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Forty miles north of Antigua, it was 3:50 a.m.. May 28, 1959. From the bridge and foredeck of the stubby U.S. Navy fleet tug Kiowa, about 25 officers and crewmen gazed at the tropical sky in awe and anxiety. What they saw was a momentous event in the history of man's determination to conquer space...
...Water & Lemon. At a ranch outside Phoenix last week, Elizabeth Arden's carriage-trade customers were getting a full course of beauty treatments, including slimming, for $500 a week. At Kiowa Lodge, southeast of Los Angeles, an ex-football player (Michigan State) named Sam Dictor was offering a reducing course for the jitney trade at $80 a week. The program began with a glass of hot water and lemon juice served in bed. Then the inmates jumped into sweat suits emblazoned "Kiowa," and began a rugged, day-long routine of calisthenics, swimming, games and "passive exercise" with reducing gadgets...
...Nearing Kiowa the car went out of control, crashed through the guard rail of a bridge over the Medicine Lodge River, and landed upside down in the water. Neither the driver, Ray Munsell Sr. (who apparently had had a heart attack), nor his wife survived; their daughter-in-law was knocked unconscious...
...Mescalero Apache reservation in southern New Mexico last week went many a Navaho, Comanche, Kiowa and Oklahoma Apache tribesman, plus hundreds of white vacationists, to join the 800 Mescaleros in a tribal ceremony. Hosts were Paul and Charles Evans, rich Apaches. The occasion: presentation of their 16-year-old daughters, Rebecca and Carolyn, to Indian society...
...plants and plants products was also increased by important additions, among 450 specimens of Chinese food, drug, fibre and timber plants; a number of Egyptian plants; a number of Mexican rosaries composed of ornamental seeds; a series of plant materials from Oklshoma associated with the peyote ceremony of the Kiowa Indians; specimens of resin-yielding plants and resinous products from the Federated Malay States; and specimens from Burma...