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...fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India's elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people's heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow their own to any man. For two years India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, so often a volunteer peacemaker around the world, has been fighting a private and bloody little war of his own with dissident Nagas...
...official church doctrine the change is rooted in the Rerum novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, who in 1891 urged fairer treatment of such working masses as largely inhabit Latin America. In vigorous execution in Latin America, the policy is only about two years old and is rooted in the Vatican's conviction that dictatorships and poverty breed Communism. "Experience has taught,'' says a high Vatican spokesman, "that a system of freedom is in the end best for church interests. Any privilege that may be gained through a dictatorship is soon more than offset by hatred against...
Kansas City's Topic A was a 1% tax that the city government wanted to levy on earnings so that suburbanites can be forced to pay for the upkeep of the city they inhabit by day and shun by night. In Hollywood the swimming-pool set, thousands strong, responded to an unseasonable temperature in the 80s by flicking winter's debris off the water. Los Angeles and Brooklyn joined in the guessing about whether the Dodgers would really move West. Detroiters based buoyant hopes on the first signs of a heavy spring market for 1957 cars (see BUSINESS...
...essay on sex, after propounding the wisdom of selective breeding through artificial insemination, he closes: "Do not say that you turn in distaste from a selection so calculated and conscious, which does not depend on 'the heart.' In how many marriages and liasons in the society we actually inhabit does no calculation enter or the heart play a cardinal role?" This is necessarily repugnant to those of young enthusiasms--perhaps of healthy emotional enthusiasms. But Wilson does not demand that it be eaten; he asks only that it be tasted...
...continent. Like the polar scientists of ten other nations now assaulting Antarctica, all are participants in the International Geophysical Year studies of 1957-58. The I.G.Y's objective: a free exchange of the newly gained scientific information among all the nations concerning the world they inhabit...