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...couple with his wife's mother or elder sisters, the wife of his wife's older brother, the wives of his sons and younger brothers, and so on. On the annual rice-festival night, when everyone gets bleary on the native brew chi, sexual abandon is not only permitted but practiced. Nevertheless the incest taboos are still scrupulously observed...
...neighborhood voted for compulsory church attendance on Sunday, so be it. If the majority in another area wanted compulsory free love, that was all right too. What would happen to a celibate atheist who lived in either area is never made clear. Presumably he would have to abandon his convictions or start his own neighborhood...
Edward V. Hanrahan, the Cook County state's attorney whose men had staged the foray, still insisted that the police version was true. He was forced to abandon the case, he explained, because new evidence showed that important information supplied by the Chicago police laboratory had been faulty. Also, some of the evidence would have been inadmissible because of the method by which it was obtained. But Hanrahan's explanation, like the entire police account of the incident, was clouded by elisions and puzzling inconsistencies. Bobby Rush, Illinois Panther chief, seized on the statement to charge that...
Yugoslavia's JAT flies Western-built aircraft on international runs. Pilots like to dive at airports on landing. Stewardesses tend to be dark, curvaceous; they serve slivovitz with abandon. The airline rates poor on ground efficiency, but Belgrade's airport is modern and relatively well served by taxis. The airport restaurant is mediocre at best...
...gasoline cars will make automobiles pollution-free. Jamison points out, however, that such devices wear out quickly and that motorists desiring a more efficient car are tempted to remove them. Some automobile companies have investigated steam cars. but in most cases those investigations were half-hearted or were abandoned as economically unfeasible. Detroit is making money with the gasoline car and is unwilling to abandon...