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Thumbed Noses. Most powerful weapon in the hands of the new-rich Navajo tribal council is the treaty of 1868, signed by Lieut. General William Tecumseh Sherman for the U.S., and by Chief Barboncito and eleven other tribal chiefs for the Navajos. It allotted the Navajos their scrubby, brush-covered acreage along with treaty rights. Modern Navajo interpretation of the treaty: the tribe can disregard any state or federal law that does not suit its purposes. "A treaty sovereign," argues urbane Joseph F. McPherson. onetime U.S. Justice Department attorney who now works for the Navajos, "has a certain right...
...Queues. In Omaha, Billy Paxton, 13, told to make a list of practices important to dental hygiene, wrote: 1) "Brush your teeth after every meal"; 2) "See your dentist twice a year"; 3) "Stay away from fountains where they push...
...with a triangular bald spot, getting persistently bigger, on the side of his head. Dr. Savill found many short hairs of unequal length, some with frayed ends. Her conventional treatments-oil and massage-did no good, but when the patient switched to an old-fashioned boar-bristle brush, his hair grew out normally. Dr. Savill compared this with similar cases, found that the common villain was a nylon brush with bristles cut off square at the ends. Her most extreme case: a woman of 28 who was on the verge of suicide last year because of hair loss, was saved...
...Washington, D.C. But after it was willed to Harvard in 1940, it was spotted by Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, topflight Rembrandt scholar. "A comparison of the two heads shows at once how much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function," wrote Rosenberg. "The transitional tones, so essential for bringing out the modeling in its full range, are gone, and the face has become much flatter in detail and harsher in its value contrasts...
...Eddie Thomas also rose, became general superintendent of Goodyear in California and worked for Goodyear in England before becoming president at 41, the youngest ever chosen by a major rubber company. Together they groomed Russ DeYoung, son of a Rutherford, N.J. carpenter, for the presidency. Both Thomas and DeYoung brush off talk of any basic changes in Goodyear's policies. As devoted admirers of Litchfield, they say that the policies "P.W." used to make Goodyear great are good enough for them...