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...waters are wide open. With a license from Florida's Internal Improvement Board, a salvage contractor gets exclusive rights to work a specific area for $100 a year, in exchange must turn over one-fourth of any loot to the state. As treasure fever mounts, Florida officials have become increasingly worried that the state is not getting its proper share. Last week the Internal Improvement Board chairman, who is happily named William Kidd (no kin to the pirate captain), admitted that the state does not post any inspectors aboard salvage ships...
...height from only 40 to 60 inches. They have six fingers on each hand, the extra one being on the outside of the hand beyond the little finger. Sometimes (but not consistently) there is a sixth toe on one foot or both. Although it is not conspicuous at birth, many dwarf babies have an abnormal heart with only three chambers instead of four (no septum between the auricles), and a weakness or deficiency of cartilage in the chest and around the windpipe. One-fourth of the dwarf children die of such defects within two weeks of birth. Another fourth...
...averages prevailed, the racial composition of juries in Sumter County, Ga., would be three-fourths white and one-fourth Negro. The two races are represented in just about that proportion on the county's tax rolls, from which jury panels are drawn. But rarely in modern times has a Negro served on a jury in Sumter County, where even the tax rolls are segregated: the names of white and Negro taxpayers are separately registered. By order of the Georgia Court of Appeals, the law of averages now prevails along with the law of Georgia in the selection of Sumter...
...Moral Renewal." Honored in death, the German Christian martyrs had relatively little support from their fellow churchmen during their lives. Less than one-fourth of the country's Protestant ministers belonged to the Confessing Church; in 1945 the Evangelical hierarchy issued a formal statement of guilt, acknowledging the failure of all but a few to speak out against Hitler...
Protestant Warnings. Such ecumenical experiments may well prove one way to end a continuing source of Catholic-Protestant conflict. Catholic canon law requires that the children of all mixed marriages be brought up as Catholics and that the Catholic partner work "prudently" for the conversion of his spouse. It does not even recognize the validity of any mixed marriage that is not celebrated before a priest. Despite such off-putting rules, roughly one-fourth of all Catholic marriages in the U.S. and Germany involve a non-Catholic partner-and there are thousands of other Catholics who, breaking canon law, marry...