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...first striped flag that Tower found bore seven red "stripes of rebellion" (see opposite) for the provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Friesland, Groningen and Overijssel, strongholds of the Reformation. According to Tower, Dutch refugees carried this flag with them to the southern counties of England, where Puritanism was strongest, and around 1574 it began to appear on British ships, sometimes with four red stripes, and sometimes with the red cross of St. George in the canton (the upper corner next to the staff). Contemporary views show that it was carried by some ships against the Spanish Armada...
Skirting Tunis' subdued French quarter, Bourguiba's cavalcade proceeded amidst the thunder of drums and the shrilling of native pipes, through festooned streets and stopped before a small, dilapidated house. The adoring crowd surged forward, bore Bourguiba up three flights of stairs to the tiny apartment where his wife has lain bedridden during the last six months of his exile in France...
...What should schools do when pupils have children?" asked Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet. A Bible teacher in a school in southern Sweden had posed the question after two girls bore babies fathered by fellow students. Should they be expelled, or at least get bad-conduct marks on their final reports? The Bible teacher's view was that they should. Not so. said the principal, and handed out good-conduct marks. The school's teaching staff agreed, taking the position that "the schools should not punish, now that society no longer does." The outraged Bible teacher appealed...
Primitive television systems used a "flying spot." A thin beam of light scanned the scene, and its reflected brightness as it crossed light and dark areas was turned by a photosensitive cell into an electrical signal. Changed back into light, the signal produced an image that bore a vague resemblance to the original scene...
Beyond the Dessert. In Charleston, W.Va., at the gala opening of Woodrum's Tearoom, the proprietors did some rapid table hopping after they discovered that matchbooks placed before each customer bore an advertisement for indigestion tablets...