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...Berbers are the indigenous race of North Africa, distinct from and lighter in color than the Arabs who have invaded their lands. Warlike and industrious, the Berbers have never been fully subjugated. Though Mohammedans, they eat wild boar's flesh, drink fig brandy and reverence female saints. Monogamous Berbers buy their wives, but give them more freedom than Arab women enjoy...
Near Durban, Natal, 150 fellow Indians gathered to watch Manilal Gandhi, 58-year-old son of the late Mahatma, sip a glass of lemon juice, honey and hot water, to break his 14-day fast held in protest over South Africa's segregation laws. Gandhi, 20 Ibs. lighter, announced that he would ask the South African government once again to change its laws, before breaking one of the laws himself as a further protest...
...second game, the Tigers scored a goal, a penalty, and then another goal. The lighter and less practiced home team lost two players during the game. One of them, Dick Bowditch, suffered a broken nose...
...average weight of the Cambridge crew is 176 pounds as against 183 for the Crimson. Not only are the visitors lighter, they're also almost three inches shorter...
...Poleri turned out to be one of the finds of the season. Laszlo Halasz, director of City Opera, heard Poleri last fall on a Chicago radio show. Handsome Poleri sang Des Grieux as if he had learned it straight from Caruso; his voice, less powerful and assured, is sweeter, lighter in color. He acted his part as if he were born...