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...adhered rather strictly to the British custom of not criticizing political opponents sharply while in a foreign country, but still his position as the leader of the Opposition to a newly-formed Conservative Government was significant throughout the evening. Gaitskell Wednesday demanded a general election in Great Britain upon the resignation of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, before Harold Macmillan had been named to succeed...
Many of 40,000 people sitting in the Stadium contributing their five dollarses were Harvard alumni, who maintain a folk custom of keeping in touch with the old place by returning on Fall weekend pilgrimages. It's probably better to have them come than not come, for they are encouraged to give money when they taste the dust of Harvard Square on their tongues once again. They can hope for a Crimson victory; but we wish that they wouldn't expect it. Even the suggestion that Harvard alumni would consider a winning football eleven as continuing assurance that...
...chiggers beneath the skins of network bigwigs and Madison Avenue operatives is the custom of the free plug, or "plugola." A TV comic, disk jockey or M.C. slips a brand name into his patter, e.g., "They said I was drunk, but it was all relative-Old Grand-Dad," and he or his gagwriter can count on the "payola"-a case or two of whisky in the next delivery. Offenses have occurred most persistently on the Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Robert Q. Lewis shows; yet the networks fear to order their stars to stop the practice...
...sold even the gold from our teeth," one farmer told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast. "The only thing we've left to sell is our daughter." It was not a joke. Many a farm family, in desperate need, has returned to the old but recently outlawed custom of selling off a daughter to some enterprising brothel keeper in exchange for ready cash. So far this year, the Hokkaido prefectural police headquarters reported, 1,454 girls have been sold to restaurants, brothels and geisha houses, and 1,040 persons had been charged with brokerage in girls. Some teenagers have been sold...
...story, reported one of its translators, Soldier-Scholar Yigael Yadin of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, was written on goatskin in Aramaic in "a very pleasant hand." It tells how Noah's father Lamech (son of Methuselah) was married to his own sister-a custom necessitated in earliest times by the shortage of women. Lamech, according to the scroll, began to suspect that Baby Noah was not his own child-apparently with good reason. At birth the child "rose up in the hands of the midwife and conversed with the Lord of Righteousness." His body was "white as snow...