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...Mexico pueblo of the Zuñis, largest of all the Indian pueblos, met the chiefs of the six clans. The matter before them was of great solemnity: How did the Zuñi gods chance to be residing in a white man's kiva, and what were the white boys doing with them...
...their most potent gods, the Mudheads and the Shalakos, among the white men. After due deliberation, the chiefs sent a delegation to the Indian Commissioner in Gallup, N. Mex., 33 miles north of the pueblo, to protest against the sacrilege and to inform him that henceforth the great Zuñi pueblo would be closed to all non-Zuñi visitors...
When Buck Burshears heard of this he reacted with speed and tact. Would the Zuñi chiefs honor the Koshare troop by appointing two representatives to attend a performance of the sacred dances, to see for themselves that no mock was being made of the gods? And to show that the white chief spoke with no forked tongue, he sent two round-trip railroad tickets to La Junta...
...Springer started a weekly radio magazine, Hör zu! (Listen), has pushed it to a circulation of 1,800,000, biggest in Germany. As Hör zu! began paying off, he launched a woman's magazine, Constanze, which soon hit a circulation of 500,000, and Der Spiegel, a weekly news magazine. In 1948 Springer jumped into the daily newspaper field and made Hamburg's politically independent Abendblatt a leader in north Germany, thanks to his bag of circulation tricks (e.g., giving hundreds of flower bulbs to Hamburg children, organizing contests among radio hams and carrier...
...they returned a few days later, with two genuine Helgolanders and supplies. Within a week two dozen students, newspapermen and banished Helgolanders were on the island. The most prominent new arrival was Historian Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein, a wartime anti-Nazi refugee and postwar German nationalist. "A Gandhian gesture," explained the prince...