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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neapolitan custom that, on the first Monday after burial, relatives and close friends of the deceased return to the grave and deck it with flowers. On that day, Cicatiellos bearing red flowers and Coronas bearing white flowers appeared at the cemetery. This time, antagonism boiled over and there was a sharp pitched battle...
Eeriykoot, though he knew all about his people's custom of mercy killings, protested. "This is against the white man's wish," he said. Replied Nukashook:"Then I must do it myself." Faced with this resolution, Eeriykoot gave in. He persuaded his friend Ishakak to help. They tied the ends of a rope to the ridge pole of the tepee, then sat Nukashook close to the rope. The old woman placed her head in the loop, and her son pushed down on her neck until she was dead...
...probably had no more than about three months to live, prompting one official to state privately that her killing "was the humane thing to do." But the inquest also brought out evidence of a criminal offense, "aid . . . in commission of suicide." The government had long known about this Eskimo custom, but never before had it had enough evidence to prosecute...
...maximum penalty of life imprisonment, he got only a year, which he will spend as a handyman around the Cambridge Bay police post. His only real punishment will be separation from home. For the primitively clannish Eskimos, that alone, the government hopes, will help make aided suicide an outmoded custom...
...Stymie, still the world's top moneywinning horse ($911,335), was rapturously applauded as he went to the paddock for his first race since he was retired with a cracked sesamoid bone 14 months ago. After finishing dead last, Stymie was still cheered. In keeping with the quaint custom at New York tracks, the boos were for Jockey Eddie Arcaro, who rode My Request, the winner...