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...janitor about the premises, but everyone else is white, from judges and prosecutors down to clerks. Though many Southern judges dispense justice with admirable evenhandedness, the judge the Negro faces may well be ruled by his own prejudice or, since he holds elective office, by community pressures. One demeaning custom, banned by federal decision but continued in many Southern courtrooms, is to call Negro witnesses either by their first names or merely...
Unlike the long common custom of manning overseas offices with a few U.S. executives and a staff of nationals from the nation in which the office is located, Esso Europe will be a miniature United Nations. Its seven-man board of directors will include an Italian, Frenchman and Briton, its 450-man headquarters staff will comprise many nationalities. Already Jersey has an advance task force in London made up of Italians shopping for homes for Italian executives, Frenchmen seeking out French schools and shops, Americans finding American quarters. "We consider Esso Europe an interim step," says Nicholas J. Campbell...
...their executioners. As the century advanced, the crowds became more hostile to "the popish oppressours," and the cause of Protestantism so prospered that it became the state religion under Elizabeth, who at the suggestion of her bishops made a historic advance in the practice of religious toleration. The custom of burning heretics was abandoned in England. During the 17th century, most heretics were known as papists, and they were beheaded...
...leading evangelist of the new spirit is the governor of the Bank of Thailand, Dr. Puey Ungphakorn. Publicity-shy Puey, 49, holder of a Ph.D. in economics from London University, refuses honors and decorations, keeps his birth date a secret in order to thwart the Thai custom of showering public figures with presents, and tends zealously to his three jobs-at the bank, as director of fiscal policy for Thailand's Finance Ministry and as dean of the economics faculty at Thammasat University. Last month Puey quietly put together a formal alliance of central-bank governors from Ceylon, Laos...
...what has happened to the old Confucian tradition of balance, harmony, and tolerance for private variations in faith and custom? The training of bureaucrats who were also humanists, artists and scholars, to carry on the established order, was the major tradition, dominant over most of the centuries, whereas the present regime seems to be in a minority rebel tradition of dynastic founders, more like a band of sworn brothers rising from the countryside as leaders of peasant rebellion, animated by an extreme fanaticism...