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...Three strategic intercontinental missiles, for long-range striking power, are under accelerated development. "These are the Navaho, the Snark and the Atlas, . . . Such missiles [as the Atlas] approaching a target present the enemy with an incredibly-and almost hopelessly-difficult defensive...
Working also with such missile prototypes as the Northrop "Snark" and the North American "Navaho" (which have intercontinental range, but at speeds only comparable to current bomber types), the U.S. may be catching up. The prospect is that by 1960 both the U.S. and the Soviet Union will have missiles that can carry hydrogen pay loads at 10,000 m.p.h. with a range of some 5,000 miles...
Adventure (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS). Documentary film on the Navaho Indians...
American Indians are on the warpath against cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have come reports of made-in-Japan totem poles and ivory carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted...
...hours the Navahos talked it over. This was too important a matter for the Council to decide, said one; the whole people should vote on it. It was sinful to give away the holy things, said another; they should never be written at all but handed down from father to son. But when the vote came at last, the pride of the tribe (and perhaps a hope that the book would help establish a pending land claim against the Government) made it 50 to 18 for giving Father Haile permission to go ahead with his 1,203-page manuscript...