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Barely three years ago the Southwest's Four Corners area was a 15,000-sq.-mi. wasteland inhabited by Indians, mostly Navajo, whose sheep battled the jackrabbits for meager forage. Last week the mesa-dotted region, where the boundaries of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet, was the hottest petroleum area in the U.S. Each day El Paso Natural Gas Co. piped more than 600 million cu. ft. of natural gas to the Los Angeles market from 3,000 wells; other companies piped huge amounts to the Pacific Northwest, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Oil company pipelines...
...greatest disk jockey. But when he gets too far away from his records, he tends to set some-chiefly for wild talk, editorializing and plain old airborne nonsense. Tireless champion of all underdogs, Sherwood thought that he had found a great cause last April: New Mexico's Navajo Indians. Commentator Sherwood was soon berating the U.S. Government for freezing Navajo funds (it has not), arguing that the tribe is ill fed, ill housed (it is not), trying to prove the Indian kids are badly educated (they...
Last week Sherwood had to face his sternest refuters, members of the Navajo's own tribal council. He had half an hour to commiserate with them; they had half an hour to reject his misbegotten sympathy. The Indians, in full war regalia, scalped him with little forensic grace but plenty of feeling. The tribe's executive secretary effectively refuted "the absurd and erroneous assertions of one Don Sherwood." Sherwood backed down, muttering, "I had my reservations about this...
...vice president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Jack Dempsey moved west, served New Mexico in the U.S. Congress from 1935 to 1941, again since 1951, last month pushed through an amendment that calls for the immediate beginning of construction on one of his pet projects: the $37 million Navajo Dam in the Upper Colorado Basin...
Wool jersey matching seperates are naturals for the middy-look. Slim or pleated skirts are mated with jersey overblouses, some hanging loosely at the hips, others elasticized at the hipline. The girl with exotic tastes can even find a mix-match set whose jersey overblouse resembles a Navajo Indian blanket. The blouse has a horizontal design of red, gold and white on a background of loden green, and the skirt is loden green wool. The outfit is manufactured by Dorothy Kerby...