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When they advocated U.S. recognition of Communist China, its admission to the U.N., and closer relations with Communist countries generally, the 500 delegates to the Fifth World Order Study Conference of the National Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 1) knew they would probably reap a whirlwind. By this week, the breeze of criticism was fairly stiff...
Quilled Noses. The centuries have been mostly peaceful ones for the Batonga. They plant and reap two crops a year. The great tribal wars to the southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling. To frustrate Arab slave raiders, the Batonga took a typical way out: their women were ordered to knock out their four upper incisors and insert porcupine quills and twigs through holes bored in their noses. Object: to lessen their attractiveness and, therefore, their value in the slave marts. When the white men arrived and broke the power of the Matabele with...
...type-cast sexpot keep her cinema charm while 1) pregnant, and 2) on the rise to higher levels of intellect? Can a middle-aged producer reap wild oats? Can a female swimmer be a submarine hostess? Can a tycoon's son carry on? Can a crooner liquidate a photographer? Last week these vital questions met these tentative answers: ¶ Marilyn Monroe, shooting her first Hollywood film (MGM's Some Like It Hot) since she left for New York and re-education two years ago, was pregnant and more intellectual than ever. Marilyn stayed coolly sealed inside the mental...
...most of the home sewing. But no longer. Women are still sewing to economize-but on the fanciest dresses that Paris can design. Inundated by fashion news, furiously taking up and letting down to keep in style, some 35 million women are sewing profits for an industry that will reap close to $1 billion this year. Home sewers will spend $400 million for fabrics, $290 million for accessories, $270 million for home sewing machines, $40 million for 90 million patterns. About 20% of all feminine clothes are now made at home by women who sew an average of four...
Into the Red. The competition to reap these bustling sales has nudged most papers into the red. "Since the war ended, our costs have exceeded our revenues," admitted Association President Chikao Honda. Subscription prices are fantastically low: 84? will buy a month's home delivery of morning and afternoon editions. Promotion prizes are so big that they often cancel out any gain in circulation. Cried Honda: "Our excessive competition is like pulling the legs of a man who is hanging himself...