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...What are the means? Anany Egorovich asked himself. The kolkhoz wages? Certainly not. sadly enough. Who could build themselves a house? Those who have earnings on the side. There is a custom in the village: if you work in a kolkhoz, look for a wife who has a regular job in town...
...units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos: giant rotary dumpers empty four railroad gondolas simultaneously, and within minutes electronically mix the different coals into a desired blend...
...your women keep silence in the churches," enjoined St. Paul, and Christian tradition is strongly on the side of an all-male clergy. Outside Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholicism, however, the desperate need for clergy has given many churchmen cause to think twice about the validity of custom. Now at least 50 of the 168 churches belonging to the World Council of Churches admit women to the ministry. Barbro is the fifth of seven women to be elevated by the Swedish state Church to the Lutheran priesthood since Parliament authorized such an appointment...
...Eton or even teach there. But Oxonian Chenevix-Trench, a Berkshire headmaster who lists his recreations as "shooting and general outdoor activities," thinks right about the rites of Eton. He plans no changes: "It is a wise chap who waits and sees." He is for "fagging," the custom that makes new boys the servants of older boys. As for another old custom, the right of head boys to beat others, he says: "If I were going to a school that didn't have it, I wouldn't start it. But if a school has it-well...
...year career at Exeter and go off to run Africa's biggest Peace Corps operation, which by fall will have 500 U.S. teachers in the schools and universities of Nigeria. "You'll have to find a new saint,'' he said, referring to his yearly custom of a surprise holiday that the boys call Saint Gurdon's Day, "but don't you dare forget your...