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Louder Voice. Sato is under political pressure at home to give Japan a louder and more independent voice abroad, and thus, even more than his predecessors, he will be angling to bring back from Washington an omiyage-the gift that, according to Japanese custom, a host presents an honored guest. During two scheduled huddles with President Johnson, the Japanese leader will probably renew his country's request for more administrative say-so on Okinawa, the onetime Japanese possession that the U.S. military still occupies. Sato may also protest U.S. restrictions on Japanese textiles and renew Japan's long...
...gives no hint what instrument Cain used in killing Abel, the Fry Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel's upper cranium the first time he used it, and the scene had to be interrupted for nearly a week until the black and blue patch subsided...
...Chicago, has its strays: the ex-students, would-be writers, nostalgic journalists, misplaced faculty wives and outright intellectual bums who huddle up to the academic fire for warmth without fully belonging there. They clerk in the bookstores, talk the night away in the coffee shops, provide the steady custom for the bars...
Infant baptism is a church custom that can be traced back at least to the second century. During the Reformation, radical Protestants on the Continent argued that baptism should be reserved for adult believers who consciously choose Christ-a practice followed by Baptists, Pentecostals, and Seventh-day Adventists, who all use total immersion. For Anglicans, infant baptism is a heritage of Catholicism, preserved because it is "most agreeable with the institution of Christ...
Around the corner at 111 Mt. Auburn Street is Seymour Swetzoff, custom framer. He does excellent work; as far as I know, there is no one else in Cambridge who can lay gold leaf around the corner of a frame, giving the illusion that there is no joint. More than this, Mr. Swetzoff is a knowledgeable and friendly man with varied interests (yoga, old master drawings) and a sense of humor. He also puts on more-or-less regular exhibits in his gallery room. His present show is of Max Swartz, who does pop art pictures of the Beatles--need...