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...customs, manners & morals as reported in the U.S. press: ¶Said Seattle's Fire Chief William Fitzgerald: no man can face a crisis with his pants off, but a woman forgets about modesty if the fire is hot enough. Nevertheless he warned firemen not to be crude when rescuing ladies from bathtubs. "Don't just break down the door. Knock first and say, 'Ma'am, this is the fire department.' Then break down the door...
Daveron, who knew the jungles, stepped in. First, he set up a mule hospital, treated maggot-infested wounds (from sharp jungle grass) with crude-oil rubs. With local gauchos he rounded up the strays and drove the troop to better pasture...
...other message from Moscow was less conciliatory. Tass, the Soviet news agency, denounced "General Douglas MacArthur for "crude interference" with the Orthodox Church in Japan-i.e., refusing to cooperate in a Soviet effort to take over the Japanese Orthodox Church. A year ago the Japanese church, which has 35,000 members, asked Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, head of the U.S. church, to send a spiritual leader to Japan...
...American idea that "youth is always right," or "don't be too hard on them, they'll outgrow it," are responsible, along with lack of home discipline, for the unnecessarily loud and crude behavior of high school youth today...
...royal tomb, second largest and the oldest ever found, had been looted by grave robbers before the pyramids were started, but it still contained plenty of relics for modern archeologists. Crude hieroglyphics identified it as the tomb of Queen Mereneith, wife of Zer, second (or third) Pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty. Date: about...