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Some British teaplanters found the Dafias' monkeyshines vastly amusing and rewarded them liberally with gifts of precious salt, clothes and trinkets. But British officialdom took a much dimmer view of the tribesmen whose moral code held that every young man should cut off at least one human head before he was fit to claim a bride. When, as they often did, the Dafias went on the rampage, looting, burning, raping and slicing off neighboring villagers' heads with one stroke of their razor-sharp daos (short swords), the British did not hesitate to discourage them with the full force...
CHANCES of extending the excess profits tax (Time, June 1) seemed dimmer. As congressional hearings started, only two of the 15 Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee, which must report out a bill, favored President Eisenhower's proposed six-month extension. Three of the GOPsters were willing to okay a compromise extension, probably three months; the rest were flatly opposed. Democrats would give no assurance they would "bail...
...ordering and patterning undergraduates' life, something we abhor. Either University Hall considers students mature enough to run their own affairs or it does not, and so long as any limits but the most essential, any above the absolute minimum, are maintained, it is clear that the deans take the dimmer view...
...other lands, where bread-eating peasants took a dimmer view of spuds, the rich and powerful attempted to overcome their prejudices. Frederick the Great sat on a balcony in Breslau and ate a mess of boiled potatoes in public, to prove to his Prussians that they were not poisonous. At the French court, Marie Antoinette, in the best 20th Century pressagent style, attended a potato banquet with potato blossoms decking her hair, to get Frenchmen to eat potatoes...
...prospects of victory are even dimmer this year, with both freshman and varsity squads vying for bottom on the rank-list. Losses included meets with Tufts, Holy Cross, Rhode Island State, Rhode Island, and Dartmouth...