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...There has been a tendency where European and non-European societies meet for the natives to revert to tribal practices in an attitude of deep antagonism to the colonists," Freyre said...
Asked about Mt. Auburn St., which is currently one-way while the Department of Public Works repairs it, Rudolph said that it would revert to a two-way street when the project is completed...
...only by their first names -were youthful pages in the court of Buganda's pagan King Mwanga, and were speared to death after they refused his homosexual advances. The other saints include Bugandan nobles, a potter and a shipbuilder, who were burned or beheaded when they refused to revert from Christianity to spirit-worship. In all, about 200 Catholic and Protestant converts died for Christianity during Mwanga's persecution; the missionary order of White Fathers, who converted the Ugandans to Catholicism, promoted the cause of only those whose martyrdom was unquestionably due to religion...
Under One Roof. Johnson also announced that responsibility for setting oil policies would revert to the Interior Department, where it lay during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, the responsibility had been divided among the Commerce Department, the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Emergency Planning and the White House itself. Now the complicated job of determining import quotas will be done under a single roof. Johnson's motives were partly political: as an oil-state politician, he wanted to avoid possible charges of favoritism. All the same, the result was hailed by the Independent Petroleum...
...BING CROSBY SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A special featuring Beverly Hillbilly Buddy Ebsen, who will revert to his original role of 1930s tap dancer...