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Although the Watutsi comprised only 14% of the population of 5,000,000, they kept the Bahutu majority and the Batwa Pygmies in a state of virtual serfdom. Cattle feudalism was the basis of the system. The hapless Bahutu were forbidden to own or kill cattle; they could get beef only when cattle died of natural causes. Each Watutsi's wealth, prestige, and political position were measured by the size of his herd, and every cow was regarded as a sister in his family...
Died. George Charles Montagu, 87, ninth Earl of Sandwich, whose :8th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, is credited with concocting the first sandwich (a slab of beef between two pieces of bread) because he once refused to leave the gaming table for a more conventional repast, recipient in 1956 of the National Pickle Packers Association's annual "Pickle Award" in gratitude for the sandwich's assistance in helping the pickle packers peddle a peck of pickles; in Huntingdon, England...
Rumanian grain production has matched prewar output only six times in the last 17 years. Horse meat in Bucharest is plentiful, but beef is scarce. Beef is also short in Hungary, which last year shipped $3,200,000 worth of cattle to West Germany in exchange for industrial goods...
...with the Gold Coast and postwar Radcliffe, and crusade to exterminate the last real menace to the Harvard community, the "jock." He's a crude, embarrassingly inept social thing in an HAA sweat shirt--a C student at best, these people maintain, as they request more scholarly replacements to beef up the total intellectual output of the College. The most common disagreement is with the admissions policies of the University, which, they say, "have been guilty of admitting too many jocks...
...after the proper time interval (about 2.5 sec.), which proved that they had actually gone to the moon and back. This was the first time a segment of space had been spanned by laser light. And it may well mark a milestone in space communication. When they learn to beef up their lasers, scientists hope to use them to talk between planets...