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Since science can now distinguish the incurably sick from the curable, mercy killing is justified-so goes the chatter in cocktail bars. The naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro Hills, deep in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...Record. The Nathan report failed to distinguish between what might be and what would be. He said wages could be raised without raising prices. The record was against him. Prices broke through Government controls last year. Now controls have been removed. Management, interpreting facts in its own way and using its own judgment, will certainly raise prices if it has to raise wages. Even as the C.I.O. got ready to swing the Nathan club, General Motors' President C. E. Wilson stated flatly that price rises would follow wage rises as night follows day. Whether the policy was stupid...
...called for want of a better name to distinguish it from BBC's two other national programs: "Light" and "Home...
...once and for all distinguish between the refugee problem and the Palestine problem," Crossman continued. Of the total number of displaced persons now in Europe, he said, one-ninth are Jews. Fifteen percent of the Jews have stated a preference for going to America, 70 percent for Palestine, and 15 percent felt Palestine would be their choice were it easier to enter, with an American visa quite acceptable...
...distinguish--among other feats--the color green from yellow...