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Died. William Red Fox, who claimed to be 105, self-styled Sioux Indian chief and controversial man of letters and humbug; in Corpus Christi, Texas. His 1971 book. The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox, told it all-in fact, more than all: in his memoirs, the chief recalled his days acting in vaudeville and the movies, and touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's wild West show. He remembered catching fish with the hooked ribs of field mice and the braves' 1876 victory dance after they had wiped out General Custer. But it was his blow-by-blow account...
...least 146 Sioux-men, women and children-died in the Seventh Cavalry's crossfire on that frozen December morning in 1890 at Wounded Knee...
...Army seems correct in its argument that the carnage was not premeditated-too many soldiers, mingling with the Sioux, were in the line of fire...
...very first time the spiritual-symbolic leaders of 2.7 billion people are coming to the United States." Not exactly, but those who did appear included the head of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Muslim statesman, a Hindu swami, teachers of Zen and India's Jain religion, a Sioux medicine man and a psychic ex-astronaut. The program also offered Shinto, Jewish and Buddhist rituals. At week's end representatives of the major faiths spoke at the United Nations...
...three days that the cosmic-ray detector hung 130,000 ft. over Sioux City, Iowa, it marked the passage of 75 heavy atomic particles hurtling in from outer space. One of the particles was distinctly different from the others. Its telltale track through a sandwich of three dozen sheets of plastic, nuclear emulsion and photographic film looked unfamiliar to cosmic-ray researchers. Last week, nearly two years after their equipment was brought back to earth, scientists from the universities of California and Houston finally offered an explanation. The unexpected particle, they said, was almost surely a magnetic monopole, the long...