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Horse, the Sioux chief who was captured and killed in 1877, after the slaughter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand. In 1939 Crazy Horse's nephew, Henry Standing Bear, who knew that Ziolkowski had done some work on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, asked him to carve a Crazy Horse memorial. Said Standing Bear, after a long look at the faces of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore: "We want the white man to know that the Indian had heroes...
...photographer waited an entire week to shoot a burrowing owl going into a hole and coming out again. Another cameraman was speared by a savage while working along the Amazon. In making a film called Indian Family of Long Ago, E.B.F. experts had to teach the actors, some Sioux from South Dakota, how to put up tepees, pack a travois (a primitive sledge), and shoot bows and arrows. When Producer Milan Herzog made his series on medieval life, nothing would do but to shoot it in real French chateaux that had been especially decorated with priceless furniture and tapestries from...
...though the cost of living had edged up in 3½ years, "you ladies are buying a lot of built-in maid service with your [prepared and frozen] food these days." Sparkle-eyed at program's conclusion, the ladies clustered around for autographs. Sighed Mrs. Violet Byg of Sioux Falls, S. Dak.: "I'm speechless. My children are so proud...
...between themselves, Nominees Stevenson and Estes Kefauver planned some mutual coattail-grabbing. Stevenson, for instance, should help make up for Kefauver's lack of popularity among Southern leaders. And, promised George Smathers in a stopover in Sioux City, "we'll keep Kefauver in the farm areas. Take here in Iowa, Kefauver has been a lot more in demand than Stevenson. People come up to me all the time and say, 'Just send Kefauver in, and we can carry the state for Kefauver and Stevenson.' Get that...
Emplaning in Portland, Ore. that night, Stevenson and Kefauver sat together, sipped on a bourbon and soda each, grabbed bits and snatches of sleep before arriving at Sioux City, Iowa's Sheraton-Warrior Hotel at 3 a.m. Just before the plane landed, a reporter asked Stevenson how he could smile after such a man-killing day. Said he: "You know, at just about the same hour as this, someone asked me why I ever went into politics. I said it was because I was drafted...