Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pillow fight, Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, became an honorary Indian six times over in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presented with the traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of the Crow, Seminole, Navaho, Apache and Mohawk tribes. The occasion, according to the Indians, was originally inspired by their gratitude to F.D.R., who during a 1938 drought helped them retrieve a sacred beaded thunderbird from the Smithsonian Institution, where it had been gathering dust and making no rain. On the day the thunderbird came back to its rightful...
...news, like other news, is mostly made in the world's metropolises. But last week one of the top stories in the U.S. art world had its source in upstate New York's quiet Mohawk Valley. Improbable cause of all the excitement: the opening of a new art museum in Utica, N.Y. (pop. 100,000) and its inaugural show called "Art Across America." NEW UTICA MUSEUM DWARFS EVENTS HERE, headlined the New York Herald Tribune's big-city art writer...
...State of New York." and conducts some 22 pre-employment procedures there, the commission argued that it has jurisdiction. Capital got 30 days in which to hire Patricia Banks as a stewardess or face contempt proceedings in New York courts. Of all the major U.S. airlines, only TWA and Mohawk have hired Negro stewardesses: two all told...