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...journeyed to the Rajasthan village of Bourai. 60 miles from Udaipur. and made arrangements for a mela-an all-night feast with dancing and speechmaking. When the drummers had spread the news abroad, 7,000 Bhils turned up-men, women and children. At the height of the party, tall, spectacled Rameshwar Tantia stood up. He had some presents, he said, for his sisters, the Bhil women, and he flung open the suitcases he had brought with...
...feast day of St. Scholastica the Virgin, and a bunch of the boys from Oxford University were out on the town. At the tavern called Swyndlestock, they ordered wine, but when John de Croydon brought it to them, they decided that it was no good. De Croydon said it was; the scholars said it wasn't. To emphasize their point, they threw it in the tavern keeper's face. With that gesture-just 600 years ago-began the bloodiest town-and-gown riot in the history of Oxford...
...August by two Frenchmen posing as police. Small Moroccan businessmen are frequent targets, and so are native school teachers. Frenchmen suspected of favoring the Moroccans by advocating peaceful compromise are also singled out for quick punishment. "Pig, you've sold out to the rats; you will be a feast for the worms," ran one threatening letter to a government official which was signed "The True Frenchmen." One night last October a bomb was thrown into the apartment of the editor of Casablanca's Maroc Presse, who advocated a liberal, evolutionary solution of the Moroccan problem. Another bomb exploded...
...never His wrath. "Why," he asked in one sermon, "should we attribute to God the capital sin of Anger?" He complained that there were too many flowers in the church: "When you smother the altar in flowers you take away from its original beauty." He even objected to feast-day processions. "I am deeply shocked," he wrote his superiors, "by the neopaganism of the masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with fiery sermons. As time went...
...biggest deal ever signed by a U.S. shipper, and Federal Maritime Administrator Louis S. Rothschild hopes that it will be a pattern for other U.S. lines, and a big step towards leveling out the feast-or-famine conditions that have plagued American shipbuilders...