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Mexico's custom of letting male prisoners have occasional visitas conjugates with their wives (or other women) was recommended for U.S. prisons last week by tall, thin, shy Sociologist Normal Sylvester Hayner of the University of Washington...
...formidable problem of sex in prison. They not only prevent homosexuality, whose dank infestation in U.S. prisons alarms intelligent penologists, but also often change the entire behavior of a convict and leave him less vengeful and obsessed upon his release. U.S. prisons, at least officially, do not have the custom...
After Pilot Scott's crash, Mitchel Field's Chaplain Paul J. Giegerich visited the next day attended the funeral as Air Forces representative. Because the Kramers are Orthodox Jews he advised fellow officers to send no flowers in keeping with Orthodox custom. But flowers were sent to the funerals of the two other victims of the crash, who were Roman Catholics. The request for a so-called damage-to-property report was routine, if undiplomatic at the time. It called for no waiver of damage rights...
Irene (of Bullock's-Wilshire, with Greer the leading West Coast designer for the custom trade): slim, slit skirts, the back dip, rounded shoulders, deeper armholes...
...reports that the Nazis stripped Greece of not only food, automobiles, bicycles and furniture, but carried off even doorknobs, locks & keys. Latest Nazi wrinkle: Mussolini sent 1,000 cases of milk to Greek babies who needed it desperately; ten cases were distributed, then the Nazis followed the old Nazi custom-"borrowed" the remaining...