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Hanging is an old Anglo-Saxon custom. In the 13th century, punishment by death, in forms varying from the headsman's ax to the witch's pyre, was imposed as a deterrent for virtually every crime on the books. More than five centuries later, there were still some 200 crimes (including poaching) punishable by death in England. Children as young as seven were hanged. The first sweeping move toward clemency was not made until 1835, when these 200 mortal crimes were cut to four -high treason, murder, piracy, and setting fire to the royal dockyards and arsenals...
Positive that this custom was the primary cause of boxing's early death in the College, Lamar, in 1939, proposed a ruling which prohibited anyone who had boxed in a public contest after the age of sixteen from competing in intercollegiate boxing--amateurs cannot box officially until seventeen. The N.C.A.A. turned down this proposal, however, until 1948 when the last of the big Eastern schools gave up the sport...
...Quite, but Almost. These days Artur Rubinstein is on tour most of the time; each year he makes an extended tour of Latin America, with a stopover in Havana, where admirers keep him supplied with his own custom-made cigars.* "At home I get no rest," he complains amiably. "I must listen sweetly to my children or compliment them on something. My wife wants this or that, and there are friends to see and parties to go to. Touring is easy. I go to my hotel, and there is nothing to do but have my dinner and lie down...
This realism is based on the completeness of the creation. Not only is it faithful to human consciousness, but it adheres strictly to its own internal laws, and the reader soon finds himself thumbing the appendix, absorbing lore and custom with enthusiasm which should shame every history teacher...
...Spiral. Kubitschek expects his development program to help cure the inflation sickness by making more goods available. The puzzler here is how to finance the government's share of the program and at the same time slow down the currency presses. In the past few years, the government custom of printing new money to meet budget deficits has kept inflation spiraling dizzily. Retail prices have almost doubled within three years, rising faster than wages. Among Brazilian workers, the resulting sag in real wages has brought on a rancorous discontent...