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...Black Bottoms, who probably came later than the Red Heads, were somewhat more advanced. They made beads out of steatite, had nicely barbed spears, and ate green abalone instead of red. Both cultures, Dr. Orr believes, flourished 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. Apparently, the Black Bottom mortuary custom was to take out the viscera and fill the abdominal cavity with black clay. The color eventually spread to the bones...
...always been his custom to order his post-mortem forms in batches of 500. Toward the end of 1947, he ordered only 100. When he had used most of them, he wrote to a colleague in Switzerland saying that he refused to "linger on to become a burden to others." The week before Christmas, he filled out the last of the forms and put it in the mailbox. He informed his garage staff that he would not be seeing them over the New Year, and gave them their Christmas presents. That night he was found dead in his laboratory, beside...
Contrary to the sanguine predictions of those who thought Governor Dever's signature on a recent red bill spelt the end of communist control legislation, Representatives McInerney and Keenan have proven that it takes more than one surrender to end the unspeakably traditional custom of presenting red bills every January...
...traditional is this custom that the anti-subversive measures currently up for consideration are almost word-for-word copies of last year's red bills. Keenan has taken over sponsorship of the McCarthy-Dorgan bill instructing college presidents and trustees to expel professors, teachers and others who "support or advocate" communism. The Committee on Education has yet to schedule a hearing on this...
Just as he had been forced to do so many times before (ten), the President sent out summonses for les pressentis-the politicians who, theoretically, are eligible to form a new cabinet. First, by custom, came the representative of the party which brought down the government, the Socialists. Would Monsieur Christian Pineau care to try? No thanks, replied Monsieur Pineau. One by one came les pressentis from the other parties: General de Gaulle's R.P.F., the Independents, the Catholic M.R.P., the Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist, but right-wing...