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...were caught up in alcoholism and crime. So in the middle of a brutal Quebec winter, they left La Romaine and made their way back up the coast. Only four families survived that journey to pitch their tents near the narrow strip of riverbank where the government houses now squat. Three years ago, it was decided that tents were not, in fact, what the Indians should be living in. So 17 identical, color-coordinated homes were pulled together, each with its own toilet, snazzy stainless steel kitchen sink and modern electric wiring. Unfortunately, no one ever got around to bringing...
From the street, the effect is disorienting; someone has deposited the set from The Guns of Navarone on the Washington Mall. It is a squat cylinder four stories high and 231 ft. across, sheathed in granite aggregate the color of flushed elephant skin. The outside wall is blank except for an embrasure; one looks (in vain) for the muzzle of a 16-in. gun peeping from the slit. Such, on first glimpse, is the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, built to house the enormous collection of 4,000 paintings and 2,000 sculptures that Joseph Hirshhorn, 75, the feisty, thrusting...
...action to pick up pointers or carefully dowsing their gloves and chaps in resin to improve the grip. "These fellows have changed a lot," says Frank Barrett, rodeo doctor at Cheyenne Frontier Days (attendance this year: 101,000) for 23 years. "I can remember when cowboys used to squat down and drink up before riding. I treated a lot more injuries then...
...matter how much we have seen and read and re-read about Franco's regime in Spain, it is shocking to realize that this squat, mustachioed little man we see parading on the screen before his elite troops is the selfsame man who for 35 years has ruled the Spanish people with an oppressive iron hand. Decades after the fall of Mussolini and the demise of Hitler, Franco maintains a reign of terror in Madrid and Barcelona, throughout Aragon and Castile, over the sons and daughters of the Loyalist soldiers who lay buried in unmarked graves in the Spanish countryside...
Died. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 77, squat, solemn Soviet marshal dubbed "the Eisenhower of Russia"; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Zhukov fought in World War I as a Czarist dragoon, in 1918 suited up as a Red Army cavalryman. After weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad...