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...Navaho and Pueblo near Gallop, New Mexico--dry, mountainous country, sparsely populated by Indians and sheep. Along with Navaho college students they ran daytime recreation programs for children and helped staff a community center. One recreation program almost overpowered the two volunteers with its success. When 120 high-spirited Zuni-Pueblo turned up for games, the volunteers blanched but carried on bravely...
Scott applies the same treatment to old military documents. Zuni Indian myths...
...then passing strange that nobody has investigated the academic man? Surely the contemporary scholarship reflects peculiarities of the university environment and the academic profession in the same way that medieval or Zuni ideas reflect life in a monastery or a desert. Everyone knows that the personality of a scholar influences both the kinds of questions he asks and the kinds of answers he gives. Is it not then inevitable that the demands and expectations of students, colleagues, and administrators will also influence his definitions of reality and truth...
...showman of the year, Todd took off from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky Liz was caught in a fast-moving storm. One of the pilots radioed for permission to climb because of icing, got it, radioed back when the plane was at 13,000 feet. Minutes later, a flash like lightning was seen...
Soon jeeps and trucks, bulldozers and tank trucks were trundling up the rugged mountain roads. The Forest Service called in National Guardsmen and volunteer crews from prisons (including the "Stanislaus Hotshots" who fought twelve forest fires without a single convict trying a single escape). It flew in 225 Zuni and Hopi Indian fire fighters, mobilized in all 1,200 men from foresters to migrant fruit pickers. Crew bosses hustled them through smoke and heat to the fire line, 40 miles long...