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...founded and tirelessly run a much-needed school for the blind, first in Thailand and now in Viet Nam; Robert J. Kiphuth, 72, Yale's retired swimming coach whose devotion to physical fitness has made him one of its leading spokesmen; Annie D. Wauneka, 53, a Navajo Indian who has spent her life teaching her people hygiene and helping them to overcome tuberculosis, dysentery and glaucoma. · · · "My fireworks are built in," Comedian Danny Kaye, 50, told a questioner at a July 4 party in Moscow. His Russian hosts were beginning to get the message. On hand...
...perpetrated in the name of long-suffering art." As for Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, everyone had a field day. Julian Street's description of it as an "explosion in a shingle factory" became almost a household phrase. Teddy Roosevelt compared it unfavorably to a Navajo rug in his bathroom-which, he thought, was "a far more satisfactory and decorative picture...
...from Berkeley joins the Peace Corps to teach young Ghanaians, that's idealism with a touch of glamour; when he signs up to teach in Harlem, that's plain idealism. When a Kansas nurse helps Pakistani psychotics, that's useful and also exotic; when she helps Navajo neurotics, that's just useful. Last week the Kennedy Administration approved the blueprint for a project abundantly idealistic and daringly short of glamour: the domestic Peace Corps, probably to be known by the undramatic title of National Service Corps...
These drugs are socially dangerous not only for researchers but for those who use them for spiritual aims. For example last week in California three Navajo Indians were sentenced to from 2-12 years in jail for using peyote in a religious ceremony in their hogan. A major civil liberties issue of the next decade will be the control and expansion of consciousness. The old values are at stake--academic freedom, freedom of consciousness, the freedom of the nervous system. Who controls your cortex? Who decides on the range and limits of your awareness? If you want to research your...
...task of getting federal funds for his water-short state, roughly a third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed aid through Congress - $1 billion this year alone - to rechannel the Rio Grande and, among other things, to bring water from the Colorado River to create new Navajo farm land. To his responsive voters, Chavez always could say: "Soy uno de ustedes," meaning...