Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to study law at 32, went to Congress at 39 and, after a single term, captured his Senate seat in 1972. Besides being the Senate's most forceful spokesman for the Arab cause in the conflict over a Palestinian state, Abourezk, who was born on a Sioux reservation and knows more about the American Indian than any of his 99 colleagues, is chairman of the Senate's Indian Affairs Subcommittee and is pressing to increase both its staff and its effectiveness...
Well Rooted. What makes this more than just a pleasant trot is the obvious strong feeling that L'Amour has for the West as it really was. His great-grandfather was scalped by the Sioux (which may or may not have awakened young Louis' interest), and he was raised in North Dakota. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Not only has L'Amour done vast library research, but he also spends many days with his family hiking over mountain trails in California and Colorado. In addition, he is involved with...
...persistence that would do credit to Lieut. Columbo. In 1971 CDC officers interviewed a total of 387 people afflicted with an intestinal ailment; they finally traced the problem to cheese imported from a single French producer. Equally dogged investigation uncovered the source of an outbreak of intestinal illness in Sioux City, Iowa. After learning that all 250 people affected had eaten at one restaurant, CDC officers continued questioning until they discovered that all had ordered some kind of sliced meat. Further investigation led them to a meat slicer that was contaminated with salmonella, a particularly virulent organism that lives...
...Banks family was subdued, but not as visibly tense as Means or his wife. I asked Mark Banks, Dennis's brother, if he thought the 1868 treaty between the U.S. government and the Sioux would be admissible evidence; he said he certainly hoped so. (But this defense tactic could backfire: The treaty grants much of western South Dakota to the Sioux, but it also permits Federal forces to intervene in disturbances on that land...
...males all about. Behind them, hulking young men in double-knit suits or bright cardigan sweaters lounge against the wall, cradling bottles of beer and looking over the pickings. "I've never seen anything like this," say Cindy Barton, 22 from Estherville, Iowa. "There is nothing in Sioux City to measure...