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...study it because here we have a complete, sober and realistic record of the sex life of a people uninhibited by the things that inhibit sex life among people in the U.S. The Mochicas were not conditioned in their sex ual habits and attitudes by Judaic and Christian custom, principle and prejudice, among other things, as we are. My research among these huacos should tell me more about what is natural in sex than my research so far among American men and women...
...Humus Chap. Geoffrey Cantuar, as he officially signs himself according to ancient custom, is a natural-born conservative-with a small c, since archbishops are not supposed to have politics in public. One day he entered the House of Lords to find an advocate of artificial fertilizer debating a supporter of humus. "I have not the slightest knowledge of the subject," he later admitted, "but instinctively I support the humus fellow against the artificial-fertilizer chap...
...Lake Chad region of French Equatorial Africa, a curious native custom has long puzzled anthropologists. Versed as they are in the world's habits from necking to nose-rubbing, the scholars have yet to figure out why the native women pierce their lips at girlhood, then put increasingly bigger straw and wood plugs in the holes to stretch their lips until they protrude like duck bills...
...HAVE been exposed to lots of eyewash in my time, and I know it when I see it," remarked the Leader of the Opposition. In his time Mr. Attlee has undoubtedly shown that he can recognise eyewash. But in the past it has not been his custom to submit meekly to serving the purposes of a propaganda machine that is hostile to him, his party, and all that he stands for. The Labour delegates have presumably reconciled themselves in advance to the fact that during their tour they will be photographed, filmed, recorded for radio, and exhaustively written...
NEVINS YACHT yard will continue to build and repair custom yachts, thanks to a last-minute rescue by Carl Hovgard, 48, president of the Research Institute of America and enthusiastic yachtsman (his Swedish-built yawl Circe won the Class B Newport-Bermuda race last month). Hovgard bought the yard, which was going to close (TIME, July 12) for a reported $900,000, will keep the Nevins name, try to run the company as a break-even hobby...