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...Chinese are new immigrants. A third of the Boston ILG population, most of the young Chinese women are inactive in the union. Sitting together in the shops behind an impenetrable barrier of language and custom, history repeats itself as the Americanized women look down on their 'foreign' fellow workers. "Things have changed. It used to be a nicer group, but now we have the Chinese people. When I first got here there were a lot of refined people...whereas now there are a lot of people who come to this country and that's the only thing they know. Their...
Although women may otherwise be subordinate to men, Vietnamese custom permits them economic independence, she said...
Sir/What "Cuban Dilemma" [Jan. 15]? Let our Swiss intermediaries cool it on the negotiations to return hijackers. America should definitely continue the time-and morality-honored custom of protecting refugees. American hijackers can stay in Fidel's sugar fields with overseers with whips and guns...
...Track Meet announced that it would not be played at the event. Thereupon the Garden switchboard lit up like a scoreboard. After receiving "irate calls from all over the country," the meet officials set a new indoor record for backpedaling. They would be "delighted," they claimed, "to continue the custom" of anthem playing. Twenty New York councilmen suddenly put on their best red-white-and-blue suits and introduced a probably unconstitutional bill making it unlawful to "commence any sporting event...without first playing the national anthem...
...resulting stench, Dracula jovially ordered the man himself to be impaled, but on an especially high stake, so he could not be offended by the smell of other bodies. When two emissaries of Sultan Mohammed II neglected to take off their turbans, explaining that such was the Turkish custom, Dracula had the turbans nailed to their heads. He spitted babies on their mothers' breasts and forced parents to eat stewed pieces of their children...