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Paleontologists know very little about that critical time, nearly 200 million years ago, when reptiles took the road that turned them into mammals, and eventually into man. They may know more soon. In the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, an Indian Service agent found an outcrop of fossil-bearing rock. Driving down from Denver to investigate, Government Geologist G. Edward Lewis found that the fossils were in the Kayenta Formation, a rock stratum that runs through Navajo country for hundreds of miles. For fossil fanciers this was big news: in the Kayenta Formation fossils are almost unknown...
...just one example of how TIME, in a sense, both covers and stimulates the news in the field of art. That field, as Art Editor Alexander Eliot interprets it, covers more than just painting. We have had, for example, stories on such subjects as the rediscovery of Roman mosaics, Navajo sand painting and modern architecture. There have also been reports on playground sculpture, park design, African carvings and U.S. folk...
...Accept . . ." But there was still plenty to worry about. Traditionalists among the Indians are opposed to the burgeoning Native Church because they fear it undercuts the older, pre-Christian tribal customs. Many Christian missionaries want to see the church outlawed altogether. In 1940 the Navajo Tribal Council forbade the use of peyote, and this year arrested 13 members...
Vogt is the author of "Homestead," "Navajo Veterans: A Study in Changing Values," co-author of "Navajo Means People," and is associate editor of The American Indian magazine and The Journal of American Folklore...
Crazylegs (Hall Bartlett; Republic) is an agreeably amateurish movie about professional football players. Produced in Hollywood by Hall (Navajo) Bartlett on a shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch plays himself on the screen. Since he looks like a dark-haired Kirk Douglas and meets every cinema crisis with the wooden impassivity of Alan Ladd, Hirsch easily passes most of Hollywood's requirements for a leading...