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Since the days of the Kaisers, German civil servants (Beamten) have been a privileged caste. "The Beamte doesn't have much," the saying went, "but he has it for life." The civil service was notably honest and efficient, but it looked upon itself as the masters of the people...
¶ In Moscow, where women jammed the always-busy department stores, general trade was up only 15%, but sales of food items cherished by upper-caste Muscovites-meat, poultry, sausages, white bread-were up 150%; and shoes and woolens 200%.
Winding up a coast-to-coast lecture tour with her husband, Authoress Mrs. Krishna Hutheesing, younger sister of India's Prime Minister Nehru, said in Manhattan that the kumkum, the spot of color worn in the center of the forehead by Indian women, is not a caste mark. "It...
The recent rumpus about Leverett House has illustrated an apparently common fallacy--that there is a scale of quality among the Houses. There appears to be a widespread belief among freshmen at least that certain Houses rank at the bottom of a College-wide caste system. One pictures the word...
Bernhard congratulated the 21 Parliament members (four Negro, seven East Indian, one Javanese, two white, and seven half-caste) on their new autonomy in home affairs. "Despite occasional possible political differences," replied the chairman, "Surinam remains in union with the House of Orange."