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City agents still roam the impoverished farms in the Japanese countryside, "contracting" the services of farmers' daughters. Despite growing opposition to the ancient custom, such arrangements apparently are quite acceptable in the rural areas. Said the Labor Ministry report: More than two-thirds of the parents interviewed by government researchers in two prefectures felt that prostitution was a "proper occupation" for their daughters. Many approved on the grounds that the girls "couldn't find any other job which could support the whole family...
Final Freedom. As though sheer numbers had not already strained the controversial custom of asylum, the guests abused it further. Violating conventions that require them to stay incommunicado, they phoned, received visitors, talked through doors and windows. Money and arms were passed in and out. The new government, convinced that the cash had been filched from the treasury, tried to stop the traffic with a warning to the ambassadors concerned, finally ringed the embassies with cops...
Many small yards have turned to operating a "marina," a sort of marine filling station, repair shop and soft-drink stand. But this would be too much of a comedown for the Nevins yard. The 50 custom craftsmen that Nevins trained are now looking for jobs where standards are lower and materialism higher...
Cheers for Father. Cooper had not been back in Pulaski County long before he began to drift into local politics. Following Kentucky custom, candidates for office announce themselves on "court day," when, after the grand jury is impaneled, the judge recesses the court for the day and turns the courtroom over to the candidates. When John Sherman Cooper announced that he was running on the Republican ticket for the state House of Representatives in 1927, the crowd cheered. "They weren't cheering for me," says Cooper. "They were cheering for my father." He won without opposition...
That's just another cosmopolitan custom, Shelley assures her. But when Colleen goes out with Shelley's boy friend