Word: customers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...
...police and 200 soldiers. Latecomers were arriving by taxi, and villagers streamed in on foot from the surrounding countryside. Mahmud was hailed by the thunderous cry of "Salavat" (Felicity to Mohammed and his descendants). Before his hands were bound, Mahmud handed a ring to the executioner, an ancient custom intended to ensure a speedy death for a condemned man. The noose was slipped about his neck, and the hangman and his assistants hauled smartly on the rope. Mahmud shot six feet off the ground-then the rope broke, and he fell heavily to earth...
...decadent old capitalist custom of tipping is on the rise in the increasingly class-conscious Communist society that Nikita Khrushchev is building. Though what are called chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income...
...people he was always Chao Sivit, the fun-loving and gentle "Lord of Life." He not only lustily defended the custom of polygamy as one of the foundations...
...unsettling factor is the long-standing Cambridge tradition that no mayor serve more than one term until all Councillors have had their chance. Hence, present Mayor McNamara, and former Mayors Lynch, De Gugilelmo, and Crane, all would have to buck this custom to gain the Mayor's post...