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...Greening. Students endure hazing so they can get into the Student Corps, social clubs that count roughly one-fourth of Holland's 45,000 college students as their members. For two weeks each fall, freshmen, called "foetuses," go about with shaven heads, submitting to insults and even beatings from upperclassmen. Since they are considered "greenhorns," the process is known as "ontgroening" (de-greening). Girls go through a mild form of hazing, though when Princess Beatrix was at Leiden University, authorities considered even that too rough and ordered special treatment for her. But the boys get the works...
Biggest source of friction has always been the Bantu kingdom of Buganda, which has one-fourth of the new country's area, one-third of the population and nearly all the wealth. Under Kabaka (King) Frederick Mutesa II, the 36th monarch of Africa's oldest continuously ruling dynasty, Buganda tried to secede from the Uganda Protectorate in 1961. When the British government firmly refused to permit the creation of a new Katanga in its erstwhile colony, Cambridge-educated King Freddie did an about-face and combined forces with Apollo Milton Obote, who had risen from Nilotic herd...
...just back from Western Europe. He brought home a West German agreement to buy $1.2 billion in U.S. hardware over the next two years. Almost simultaneously, the British announced that they too had closed a deal with Bonn for the same period. Their take: $300 million, or just about one-fourth what the U.S. rang...
...Laboratory in Washington was far out of line. Their task: to make a gun that could be fired point-blank inside the human head-not to kill but to save. The unusual technical feat required even more unusual ammunition: a piece of hair only one two-hundredth of an inch in diameter and one-fourth of an inch long, which had to pierce something even less resistant than a toy balloon, and do it with such delicate force that it would not come out the other side...
...Brown hammered away at the 20,000 known new cases and 4,000 deaths annually in the U.S. If there had been only one-fourth as many cases of disease and death due to smallpox, typhus, plague or malaria, he said, there would have been virtual panic: "All the medical and public health resources of the nation would have been mustered." Why had syphilis been allowed to make such a comeback after the near knockout of the 19503? Dr. Brown answered his own question...