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Moving South. After the fall of Dien-bienphu and the general French collapse, Le Huu Tu and several other bishops forfeited the last hope of maintaining their armies, were evacuated to the South. The Catholic militiamen have been moving south ever since, womenfolk, children and baggage piled high on carts and pedicabs...
Colonel Dilley, an infantry soldier who commands U.S. Army installations in Frankfurt, had taken a horrified glance at the sloppy and sometimes less-than-decent appearance of American womenfolk in his area. The colonel is a brave man, and so he decided to do something about it. "The attire being worn in public by some American women is not in good taste," he proclaimed. Henceforth, "women dressed improperly" would not be permitted to enter U.S. military installations in his area, including PXs, commissaries, theaters, snack bars and service clubs. Specifically taboo...
...Mail raced westward across the Sind desert one day last week. In the wooden cars at the front of the train, crowded beyond normal capacity, shivering Moslem passengers balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
Like his three younger brothers, Eddie, 43, Herbert Jr., 39, and Lawrence, 36, Mr. Stanley still likes to handle sales to special customers. When one East Texan could not think of what to buy his nine womenfolk, Stanley Marcus suggested nine $750 coats made of vicuña ("fleece of the Andes"), the costliest cloth on earth...
...ankle-length gaberdines and dangling ear-locks of the medieval ghettos. On the Sabbath, the more violent among them have stoned and burned moving vehicles and shattered the windows of homes where radios were playing. The rules of the Torah and the Rabbinate strictly circumscribe the lives of their womenfolk, who must not sit with men, must cover themselves to ankle and wrist. After a rudimentary schooling, Mea Shearim girls stay at home to help their mothers with the housework seven days a week. They may not stroll about the city, dance, see movies, go swimming, or read non-religious...