Word: puebloed
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...expedition of Spanish explorers came upon an Indian village called Yang-na and renamed the site Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles-Our Lady Queen of the Angels. Twelve years later, the area was settled by 44 low-caste peons (including ten Negroes) from Mexico. The pueblo came under American occupation in 1846, was incorporated (pop. 1,610) in 1850-the same year that California received statehood...
...Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne. And as they met, they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions are good enough to hang in both the Chicago Art Institute...
...glass-and-steel box that long held sway, and which itself represented a rebellion against older forms. A new skyscraper may be built in the shape of an obelisk, a new air terminal constructed on the principle of an Arab's silken tent, a new garage like a Pueblo chiefs dwelling. Among the most daring patrons of the new architecture are U.S. churches, Mrs. Porter Brown, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Missions, argued recently that cathedrals were symbolic of a static community, while today's churches should be "fellowship buildings created to serve persons...
...Peru in 1950, Denver-born Father Dan is the founder and treasurer (he turned the presidency over to a Peruvian last year) of the 535-branch Credit Union League, which, with assets of $23 million, is the largest such organization in Latin America. He is president of El Pueblo (assets $8,650,000), Peru's second biggest savings and loan association, and executive vice president of the International Union of Building Societies and Savings and Loan Associations. To thousands of Peruvian peasants, he is simply "Father Dan the Money...
...Peruvian bankers' old complaint that the peasant could not be induced to save, Father Dan in 1961 set up a nonprofit savings and loan association to finance desperately needed low-cost housing. U.S. savings and loan men provided technical assistance. So far, Father Dan's El Pueblo association has loaned $11.9 million to build 3,613 houses in the Lima area...