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1964

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A Preliminary Report On The Excavation Of Two Late Middle Woodland Mounds In Northwestern Wisconsin, Leland R. Cooper Jan 1964

A Preliminary Report On The Excavation Of Two Late Middle Woodland Mounds In Northwestern Wisconsin, Leland R. Cooper

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A preliminary report of the excavation of two mounds located in a group of 52 in Burnett County, Wisconsin. Analysis of the data demonstrates a close generic cultural relation to data gathered at Minnesota sites. Carbon 14 dates place the existence of this culture well within the chronological position of the Late Middle Woodland period.

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Nutrition As An Index To Relative Economic Development, Kenneth E. Rosing Jan 1964

Nutrition As An Index To Relative Economic Development, Kenneth E. Rosing

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Investigation of nutrition as a reliable measure of relative economic development. Fourteen specific indices were grouped and combined to make six general indices. Subjected to the Kendall test of concordance, they were found to measure the same basic phenomenon that, on examination, appeared to be symptomatic of economic development and, therefore, reliably combined into a single index. A nutrition index was then compiled for specific countries in terms of gross calories per capita per day and adjusted to age structure, climate ami .quality of diet. All countries for which information was available were ranked by this nutritional index and tested …

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Ideal And Practice In A State Constitution: The Case Of Minnesota, Millard L. Gieske Jan 1964

Ideal And Practice In A State Constitution: The Case Of Minnesota, Millard L. Gieske

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Minnesota badly needs a revised constitution that generally and broadly defines and distributes powers, responsibilities and rights, and sets up a general frame of government. While this might be accomplished through the amendment process, it has been painfully slow and up to now inadequate to meet 'the needs for modern, flexible and responsive state government. A constitutional convention may still be the best and most practical way of achieving needed revisions.

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One Minute To Midnight: The Problems Of Order In Latin America, Harold Lieberman Jan 1964

One Minute To Midnight: The Problems Of Order In Latin America, Harold Lieberman

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An attempt to describe in broad strokes some of the many problems facing Latin America. While many of these problems are not new, attitudes toward them have changed; the revolution of rising expectations" is very much in evidence. Perhaps the most important complicating factor is the unprecedented rate of population growth, highest in the world, which aggravates the already acute problems of housing, education and urbanization. Economic development is handicapped by inflation, dependence upon single exports, lack of capital, and resistance to basic changes in the social and economic structure. The United States should encourage necessary change and support the …

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The Senate And Senator Joseph R. Mccarthy, Frank J. Kendrick Jan 1964

The Senate And Senator Joseph R. Mccarthy, Frank J. Kendrick

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A study of the United States Senate's reaction to the activities of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, of Wisconsin, based on the premise that the Senate, operating under its present rules of procedure, is both incapable of and unwilling to deal with demagogues within its midst. The nature of the censure that was reluctantly imposed upon Senator McCarthy was for only the most trivial offenses, lending support to the author's premise.

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Modern Pottery-Making In San Anton, Mexico, Gordon J. Hadden Jan 1964

Modern Pottery-Making In San Anton, Mexico, Gordon J. Hadden

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The principal contemporary pottery-making techniques which are recognized for the Mexican area are; handmodeling, building, molding with convex molds, molding with concave molds, molding with concave "vertical halves" molds, modeling with revolving "moldes," and wheel-throwing (Foster 1955: 3) . We can attribute this diversity of pottery-making techniques to the blending of pre-Conquest native practices with those of the postConquest Spanish.

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Pueblo Indian Religion, Medicine, And The Good Life, Mary Elizabeth Hamlin Jan 1964

Pueblo Indian Religion, Medicine, And The Good Life, Mary Elizabeth Hamlin

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While a public health education trainee with the Division of Indian Health, United States Public Health Service, I became interested in the socio-religious structure of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. During the nine month field training period spent in the Albuquerque area I investigated the existing ethnological literature concerning the Pueblo Indians. Research investigation in the area of the relationship between religion and medicine was accomplished by study of literature and field observation and inquiry. My concern was not so much the epidemiological determinants of disease and its prevalence. Rather it was with the "behavior of the people in …

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An Example Of Crop Dynamics In Minnesota--The Soybean, Philip L. Tideman Jan 1964

An Example Of Crop Dynamics In Minnesota--The Soybean, Philip L. Tideman

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The soybean is a plant which has been domesticated for several thousand years. The exact time and place of this domestication is not known but the domesticated plant is referred to early in Chinese literature (Morse, 194 7 : 138). The hearth of domestication appears to have been northern China but very early it spread as a crop over a considerable part of Eastern Asia and became a common crop in the areas known today as Japan, China and Manchuria, Formosa, and Korea. Until very recent times the soybean was only a botanical curiosity to the European or Western World …

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Measurement Of Vegetation And Terrain Characteristics On Small Scale Vertical Aerial Photographs, Merle P. Meyer Jan 1964

Measurement Of Vegetation And Terrain Characteristics On Small Scale Vertical Aerial Photographs, Merle P. Meyer

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Few events in recent years have stirred public imagination and interest to the degree occasioned by the uses made of aerial photographs in the Cuban affair. The average earth scientist, however, was not taken by surprise since the basic methods, materials and principles involved were not new to him. As a matter of fact, since World War II, aerial photography has become an everyday, virtually indispensable tool to most earth feature and natural resource analysts. In order better to understand the application of aerial photographs to such civil pursuits, it would be well at this point to differentiate the two …

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The Modern Celebrity As A Unique Form Of Stratification, Ronald Althouse Jan 1964

The Modern Celebrity As A Unique Form Of Stratification, Ronald Althouse

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Social strata are horizontal layers of persons occupying positions with approximately equal access to social values of communities. Every society provides a unique arrangement of social strata with respect to one another. The modern mass society is no exception. Social positions of high rank resting on notoriety - the modern celebrity - are a foundation for prominence in a manner found nowhere else.

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"Cosmopolitans" And "Locals" In Contemporary Community Politics, Daniel J. Elazar, Douglas St. Angelo Jan 1964

"Cosmopolitans" And "Locals" In Contemporary Community Politics, Daniel J. Elazar, Douglas St. Angelo

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Numerous products of recent social science research have revealed the reemergence of what seems to be a traditional pattern in American history, the lack of class consciousness in the political behavior of most Americans (Banfield 1961, Coleman 1957, Rogoff 1951: 406- 420, Rogoff 1953: 347-357, Warner, et al. , 1949).1 While this lack of class consciousness by no means precludes the more subtle influences of socio-economic class on matters political, it does limit the usefulness of the accepted class divisions developed by sociologists and anthropologists in the 1930's and 1940's in understanding the patterns of community politics (Lynd 1937, Parsons …

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The Child-Benefit Theory: A Method Of Circumventing The Wall Of Separation Doctrine, Thomas L. Pahl Jan 1964

The Child-Benefit Theory: A Method Of Circumventing The Wall Of Separation Doctrine, Thomas L. Pahl

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This paper examines two concepts in American constitutional history: the child-benefit theory and the doctrine of separation of church and state. Both concepts concern the position of the private school in American society. Neither expression is found in the original Constitution nor in any of its twenty-three amendments. Nowhere in that august document are found the following words: schools, educations, federal aid, compulsory education, textbooks, transportation, etc. Thus the present controversy concerning education bas been caused by an omission, intended or otherwise, on the part of the framers of the Constitution and has been developed due to judicial interpretation. Here, …

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