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...Widespread overseas travel for top U.S. officials is a recently acquired custom. In 1957, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles met with Britain's Harold Macmillan in Bermuda while Vice President Nixon was in Africa. President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes went to Potsdam in 1945 at a time when there was no Vice President...
...Floating swimming-pool furniture, including an Aqua-Lounge ($29.95), constructed of aluminum tubing and saran webbing, an Aqua-Butler ($6.95 for set of two), Aqua-Table ($7.95), and a custom-made Aqua-Bar ($150 to $1,500 each). The Aqua-Butler is a 10-in. by 4-in. rectangle of plastic foam, which accommodates an ash tray and a drinking glass...
...curve for curve from the stele of Hegesco, built in 400 B.C., is a large chair with curved back and legs. Gibbings' couches reflect the economy of the classical Greeks, who used them for sitting, sleeping or eating. Modern users, if they like, can follow the Greek custom of dining from a small side table while reclining on the couch and then shoving the table under the couch to make room for the dancing girls...
...been as hard for history's Christians to heed this tolerant teaching as it was for the disciples. Quirks of custom and filigrees of doctrine, thunderbolts of power politics and showers of private revelations, have split and fissured the masonry of the church time and again throughout the centuries. The Protestant Reformation triggered a chain reaction of Christian fission that reached its explosive peak in the New World; in 1900 the U.S. had no fewer than 250 different kinds of Christianity...
Those Who Must Die. Almost every ancient tribe had a bloody custom or two, but the Scythians seemed to combine them all. They not only scalped their fallen foes but also drank their blood. A man who slew an enemy in the sight of the king was allowed to keep his victim's skull as a drinking bowl. When the king pronounced the death penalty on a person, he also automatically condemned to death all of the man's male relatives. Scythian kings never died alone. The head groom, the head cupbearer, the head cook and at least...