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Flying into Claremore from Washington to address the business-suited Blackfeet, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, Chinook, Zuñi, Cheyenne, Chocktaw, Kickapoo and others was Commissioner Glenn Emmons himself, onetime New Mexico banker and a longtime neighbor and friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...
...more than five million. They reach their readers in editions published from teletype-linked plants in Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt and Munich. Springer also publishes five magazines (total circ. 4,680,000) that range from the weekly Das Neue Blatt, a sex-spiced gossip sheet, to Hör zu! (Listen!), a TV-radio weekly whose 2,600,000 sales top all other German magazines...
Torrential rains turned Baghdad's ancient streets into a morass of mud, splashed monotonously on the broad, glossy leaves of the eucalyptus trees that screen the chocolate-colored walls of Al Zuhour palace from public view. Al Zu-hour palace is the birthplace of Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
Died. Count Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, 77, wily, spike-bearded German sea raider whose auxiliary cruiser Moewe (Seagull), disguised as a cargo ship, twice ran the British blockade, destroyed an unequaled 50 vessels between 1915 and 1917; of a heart attack; in Rosenheim. Germany...
...Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. For an aggregate of 66 years, its last two Queens have reigned with the placidity of huisvrouwen. The marriage of the present Queen Juliana,who succeeded to the throne at the retirement of her mother Wilhelmina in 1948, to German Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence as "the idyl at Soestdijk," and even the fact of still another generation without male heirs failed to blight...