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...gone, the nation still bitterly divided by the fratricidal year-end strike set off by the austerity measures designed to make up for the $215 million a year that Belgium had been accustomed to extracting from the Congo. The new year saw the freakish collapse of a slag heap near Liege, burying six homes and eleven persons. It also brought the worst air disaster in Belgian history, a Sabena jet crash that killed 73. In anger over the Congo, often under Communist leadership, Belgian embassies and consulates were being looted and burned around the world. In the streets of Brussels...
...trivial loss, nor trivial Gain despise; Molehills, if often heap'd, to mountains rise...
Then came the storm. The snow began to fall at noon, Jan. 19. It strangled Washington. Out like shattered glass went all the best-laid plans. For agonizing hours the huge event seemed destined to become a fiasco. Foulups, fumbles and failures fell upon one another in a tangled heap. The inaugural ceremony itself might have to be postponed...
...rated network does not necessarily carry the best shows, and that what the industry really needs is not a quantity but a quality rating service. At midseason the top ten shows were once again practically the private preserve of gunslingers. Although NBC's Wagon Train topped the sorry heap with a 36.9 Nielsen, CBS grabbed off seven of the next nine places, with Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, a Red Skelton special, Dennis the Menace, Rawhide, Andy Griffith and Perry Mason. The only challengers: ABC's The Untouchables and 77 Sunset Strip, in fifth and sixth positions...
...Ghana, if a child should die before it is nine days old, the Fanti simply stuff its remains in a pot and throw it on the trash heap-they take the child's hasty departure as an insult and feel no obligation to respect the departed. Among Orthodox Jews, when two dead men arrive for burial at a cemetery, the more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took...