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...Northampton, Mass.) 1,500 to 1,200 Palo Verde (Mesa, Ariz.) 1,600 to 1,500 Putnam Hall (girls...
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...Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park fortnight ago Navajo Indians were giving a tribal fire dance. One interested spectator was a very tall, very thin man with bright deep-sunken eyes. Beside him stood the manager of a bus company. Suddenly the bus manager clapped his hand to his right side, groaned in agony, collapsed. The tall thin man had him removed to an emergency hospital nearby, tapped his abdomen, announced crisply: "Appendix. We'll have to operate at once. Not a moment to lose...
...Navajo Nation, famed of old as blanket-weavers, silversmiths. And to the east through New Mexico are scattered the adobe cities of the Pueblo peoples (best known settlements are the two "skyscrapers" at Taos, where the bronze men stalk about in white sheets; most picturesque is atop the big mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert...
...busses for hotels in town. Next morning they are likely to resume their sleep during the monotonous passage across the oil fields and prairies of Kansas and Oklahoma to Amarillo, Tex. But there will be no catnaps that afternoon. Slowly the plane begins its climb over foothills and broken mesa interspersed by patches of desert, signposts to the Rockies. Over the first range, the Continental Divide, near Winslow. Then into a glory of reds, greens and browns if the atmosphere is clear and the afternoon sun bright, across the fearful maw of Red Rock Canyon. To the north...