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...Delhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru last week admitted in Parliament that NEFA's conglomerate tribes have another peculiar habit unflattering to a civilized nation: they still practice slavery. Nehru said that the government was trying to eradicate the custom slowly by giving asylum to escaped slaves and spending up to $105 per man to buy freedom for those in bondage. Should India move too fast in abolishing slavery, the NEFA tribes might rebel and turn for help to the Red Chinese across the border in Tibet. But if India moves too slowly, Red propagandists will exploit the existence...
...American custom to decorate the Christmas card with a photo of the population explosion in the family. Few in Hollywood are better qualified to do so than Actor-Director José Ferrer and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, who posed beamingly with their three oldest tykes -Miguel José, 5 ; Maria Providencia, 4 ; Gabriel Vicente, 3 - while Rosemary held Monsita Theresa, 2, and Ferrer bear-hugged tiny Rafael Francisco, the eight-month-old newcomer...
...birds had scarcely been plucked when Britain's vigilant League Against Cruel Sports fired its own inevitable burst: "Here you have a child who is taught to love animals and birds on one hand and is then told, in the same circles, that it is a social custom to kill them. It destroys the child's natural sympathies for wild creatures and blunts his sensitivities...
...Matter of Chance. The man who rules Nigeria today is two years older than his country. He was born simply Abubakar, the child of Yakubu, a minor official in the regime of the emir of Bauchi. (According to northern custom, he later added to his given name that of his village-Tafawa Balewa.) Though Abubakar was not of the mighty Fulani-his family belonged to the Geri tribe-his father's position won him the rare privilege of schooling in a region almost totally illiterate. After secondary school he was even able to get into Katsina Teachers' Training...
...Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...