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That Fatal Scent. In Portland, Ore., Jerry Tisi, 24, a Navajo Indian, climbed through Patience Baxter's apartment window, found and drank a bottle of cologne, was lying unconscious on a bed when police arrived...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens...
...Arizona, Navajo medicine men came to terms with the atomic age. Uranium mining operations, now the main support of hundreds of Navajos, had put a welcome $300,000 into the coffers of the tribal council in the last fiscal year. Up among the sacred Lukachukai Mountains, however, the shamans had heard the disturbed voices of the Ye-ei, the souls of the mountains, who were angered because the miners had disturbed the dwellings of the Talking God and his brother, the Calling God. Last week, after a worried council, the medicine men announced their decision. At the time...
Many of you have written to tell me how much you have enjoyed TIME'S art pages in color, but few of you have gone as far as Reader William E. Farr of Vancouver, Wash. When TIME ran a color reproduction of a Navajo sand-painting (Oct. 8, 1951), Farr decided he wanted to copy the pattern-on a hooked rug. About a year later he sent us the finished product, a 4-by-5-ft. rug. He had spent 320 working hours making enlarged drawings of the painting, transferring them to the monk's cloth used...
Near-final answers to most of these problems should be in by year's end. Meanwhile, the patient Navajo patients and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have helped Dr. Clark and the Cornell researchers to prove isoniazid's worth. It is the second truly great weapon for chemical warfare against...