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Last week in Arizona, Navajo chiefs, with the help of interpreters, held a powwow with Pilot C. S. Barnes, a onetime Army colonel now prospering in the rainmaking business. It was hard going, because there are no Navajo words for Barnes's way of producing rain. Talking Navajo, however, was a mere concession to ceremony: ten of the twelve Indians on the tribal council are college educated...
...Manly Art. On his trip back to Washington, the President will stop off at Chicago. There, more than 2,000 Democrats-the entire National Committee, Administration leaders, Cabinet officers-will convene for three days in mid-May in the biggest off-year political powwow in U.S. history. Its purpose is to make 1950 sound as important as 1952 to keep the Republicans from making big gains, as they have the past three times, in nonpresidential election years. On the third day of the Chicago convention, the champ himself will go a few fast rounds and lecture the party faithful...
...centuries ago. Tall and agile, they range the rivers in dugout canoes and carry on indifferent agriculture in burned-over clearings. This week, having paid his respects to Paramaribo and looked over the Moengo bauxite mines, Prince Bernhard prepared for a launch trip up the muddy Surinam River to powwow with the barrel-chested Bush-Negro chieftains...
...once a week privileged Comrade Hoelvold slips across the border to have a powwow with his friends. The Norwegian government, certain that the U.S.S.R. would make him a cause célèbre at the drop of a warrant, leaves him alone. The army finds him handy as an interpreter in tricky border disputes when a wandering cow or peasant gets lost on the Soviet side. As for the neighbors in Kirkenes-"Damn Communism," they whisper, bowing to Gotfred. "But the Russians could be here in a quarter of an hour. We don't want trouble...
That night, with the scores all in, the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians found themselves knotted in a triple tie for the American League lead-a state of affairs so unprecedented that league officials had to powwow hurriedly to consider what should be done if a season happened to end that...