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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among India's many primitive sects, one of the strangest is the orgiastic Shakta. The five elements of Shakta worship are madya (liquor), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (grain), and maithuna (sexual intercourse), and it has long been their custom to worship the Hindu goddess Shakti by seeking unity of body and soul in communal sex rites. Such is kanchalia dharam, the ceremony of the blouse...
...Labor Department officials are deeply concerned, and Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines has been trying hard to get guilty officials fired and jailed. But the bite is an ancient, entrenched custom in Mexico. Serrano, for one, could not wait. With 300 pesos, a big bite out of the savings that must provide for his wife and family while he is away, he paid the coyote. Last week he crossed the border and headed, literally and figuratively, for the lettuce...
...backyard, motor trips along country roads and across the country, weekend golf and water skiing. From America's lively leisure has evolved a new, home-grown fashion, as different from Paris fashion as apple pie from crepes suzette. Paris can still claim its title as the custom-fashion capital of the world. But the French still design for Veblenesque leisure. Their clothes compliment the designer, whereas America's are made to compliment the wearer. A young Manhattan mother put it simply: "When I get dressed up, I have little time to make up to the dress; I want...
Richard T. Martell, manager of the Cambridge office, said that while the existing cables would be sufficient to handle the additional lines to Gilman, Saville, Edmunds and Everett, wiring all the other dormitories "required an elaborate cable job, since the phones will be custom-made exchanges...
...hundreds of spring-feverish men students poured out of their rooms one day last week, rushed into a coed dormitory and sorority houses. There they snatched up as many flimsy garments as they could, paraded about the campus in this year's first manifestation of that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended. ¶ In a sudden burst of energy, the Georgia Board of Education carried the white man's burden into a new field: censorship. In quick succession, the board 1) objected to a new Stephen Foster songbook because the lines "Oh. darkies...