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That hallowed tribal custom, the bride price, is coming under fire. Africa's young bachelors, caught between higher education and even higher inflation, are growing increasingly unhappy at the ancient laws that force the prospective groom to buy his bride from her parents. In Kenya, the dowry is often the equivalent of five years of the groom's expectable income, usually payable in postmarital installments of livestock, bicycles and money. By the time the bartering is over and the wedding rolls around, only his in-laws have much cause for celebration: rather than losing a daughter, they...
...Burton, 36, Richard's silvery-haired ex, currently hostess à-go-go of Arthur, Manhattan discothèque; and Jordan Christopher (nè Zankoff), 24, rag-mopped leader of the Wild Ones, the club's rock-along band; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Ventured the groom's father, an Akron saloonkeeper: "I don't know what Sybil saw in him. Whatever it is, I'd like to know...
Their trail led north from Dallas to Durant, Okla., for a quickie blood test, then back across the state line to Sherman for the license, and finally to the tiny farm town of Fate, where they were married by a justice of the peace. Only because the groom is an expert drag racer was the couple, zooming over back roads at speeds up to 75 m.p.h., able to stay ahead of pursuing newsmen. At last, back home in suburban Dallas, Marina Oswald, 23, widow of John Kennedy's assassin, posed briefly with her new husband, Electronics Technician Kenneth Jess...
Surprisingly, behind Pendulum's sometimes tidy, sometimes tiresome chaos, Writer Simpson has planted one or two ideas that swing. The Groom-kirbys, on the surface, behave like any middle-class family, and after a while their absurd rituals and lunatic discourse begin to seem alarmingly close to the norm. And as they blithely beat words to a pulp in their do-it-yourself Old Bailey, they somehow suggest that one way to solve the angst-ridden question of communication among men is to kill the language in self-defense...
...insurrections, most unions continue to be run as tight little clubs by entrenched leaders who keep a close rein through patronage and control of the union newspaper. "They just don't seem to groom heirs or successors," says Presidential Labor Mediator David L. Cole. Often a prospective new leader is as old as the man he may replace. Among the major leaders and their likely successors...