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What is this old Chinese custom (mentioned in the Aug. 3 story on the CIA) that the theoretical winner of a theoretical battle pays tribute to the theoretical loser? Or did TIME lay a 1,000-year...
Noting that 21 U.S. Navy shore stations in the South still follow local custom in segregating Negro and white civilian employees, Navy Secretary Anderson last week verbally requested shore station commanding officers to put an end to separate facilities. Then Anderson heard that some of his C.O.s would ignore the request until they got written orders. Anderson obliged; his aides wrote off a directive and ordered a report on progress in 60 days...
...science were meant for each other. In the church we find the feminine element of life in its perfection . . . Yet the church as a human institution suffers the temptations of its state, les défauts de ses qualités: the temptation to timidity, the temptation to rank custom above life and obedience above prudence. Modern science is a masculine element, inquisitive, daring, critical, willing to try the new, yet careless of holding fast to what is good in the old, lacking often in reverence for human nature and even for things themselves, feeling strangely dissatisfied in the very...
Born. To Crown Prince Asfa Wassan of Ethiopia, 37, and Crown Princess Medferiash Worq Abbebe, 30: their third child, first son, Emperor Haile Selassie's twelfth grandchild, second in line of succession to the throne. Name: to be announced, according to Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox custom, 40 days after birth. Weight...
...billion-a-year U.S. women's wear industry has another answer. It can quote yards of facts and figures to show that high-priced clothes are not only worth every penny they cost, but even more. For example, Manhattan's Sophie of Saks Fifth Ave. custom salon, where cocktail dresses sell for as much as $695, just manages to break even; the salon is operated only for the prestige it brings to the store. The markup for expensive clothes is heavy-up to 100% of cost-but it has to be so to cover overhead. At a high...