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...Attack. When too many unnamed children accumulate in a village, the conscience-stricken grownups must do something about it, to wit, launch a headhunting raid. With solemn care and deliberation, the warriors and elders work out a plan of campaign. Scouts are sent into the interior to select a victim-village. They explore its approaches, creep close to its huts, study the habits of its people. They try to eavesdrop on conversations to learn their victims' names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Get a Name | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Residing in three select houses, this polyglot community boasts representatives from Java, India, and Egypt, Mass. But a rigid caste system enforced by strict segregation bars intermingling among those of different ancestry and background...

Author: By Mark L. Goodman, | Title: Monkeys Is De Kwaziest Peoples | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

Under Furcolo's most recent bill, which is basically the name as the Ewing proposal, the government would give $800 Scholarships for students "scholastically qualified and financially needy." Under both proposals, the state would select scholarship students...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Conant Opposes 'Wholesale' Nat'l Scholarship Program | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

...statement that a picture in the article was faked is incorrect. "It was taken," said Skinner, "to illustrate the statement that dogs have the pattern discrimination needed to select a particular card from a deck. No claim was made that we had actually done this experiment for the 'Look' photographer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skinner Corrects Statement | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

...newsreel quickly changed its pace. This time it was India, as the cameras covered a beauty contest to select the national entry in the Miss Universe contest at San Francisco. The lovely Indian girls, dressed in elaborate saris were a welcome change from the usual Atlantic City pageant...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Universal Newsreel | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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