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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...