Word: pima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything, they are even more idealistic than the ones who went abroad. "There's probably a little less glory this way, at home, but it's more important than going overseas," said New Yorker Barbara Dunlap, a 22-year-old Skidmore graduate who lives in a Pima Indian settlement near Phoenix. "You have to solve your problems at home first." Paid $50 a month plus a subsistence allowance that varies from kregion to region, living at roughly the same level as the people they are helping, some 3,500 VISTAS are deployed from the Everglades to the Yukon...
...Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize picture of six marines planting the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Three of the marines were later killed on Iwo; the three who survived became national heroes. But one of the survivors, a Pima Indian named Ira Hayes, was killed by that snapshot as surely, if not as swiftly, as by a bullet...
...drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago's Skid Row. On Jan. 24, 1955, Ira stayed up all night drinking muscatel with four other Indians in a desert shack on the Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation near Phoenix, Ariz. Next morning he was found not far from the shack, dead. He had strangled on his own vomit...
Though he was favored to win (TIME, April 28), Moderate Mo Udall found himself in trouble on election night when the returns gave Yuma County to Arch-conservative Matheson. Only by scoring heavily in Tucson's Pima County did Mo Udall go on to win by the squeaky margin of 51,318 to 49,263, which was close enough to encourage Republicans for the future. At his victory press conference, Udall made no secret of his belief that his brother had hurt him: "I had counted on winning Yuma County. I lost it." In defeat, Mac Matheson...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The rumped-up Iwo Jima heroism and tragic alcoholic death of U.S. Marine Ira Hayes help make The American a bitter commentary on the life and hard times of America's Pima Indians. Stars: Lee (M Squad) Marvin and Steven Hill...