Word: customed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When Jubilee Magazine takes modern funeral homes to task for surrounding death with a party atmosphere, it seems to forget that time-honored Roman Catholic custom: the wake. So let Jubilee stop wagging a disapproving finger. By providing a lounge equipped with cocktail table and smoking facilities, the funeral home is simply carrying on an old Catholic tradition...
...most to change the world-for good or evil-during 1960. TIME'S men of the past four years have thus ranged from the Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956) to Nikita Khrushchev (1957), Charles de Gaulle (1958) and Dwight Eisenhower (1959). It is an old TIME reader's custom to match wits with the editors around this time of year. Readers who would like to enter this year's sweepstakes are invited to think back over the year's newsmakers and make their own choice for Man of the Year. Those whose candidate turns...
...Matter of Chance. The man who rules Nigeria today is two years older than his country. He was born simply Abubakar, the child of Yakubu, a minor official in the regime of the emir of Bauchi. (According to northern custom, he later added to his given name that of his village-Tafawa Balewa.) Though Abubakar was not of the mighty Fulani-his family belonged to the Geri tribe-his father's position won him the rare privilege of schooling in a region almost totally illiterate. After secondary school he was even able to get into Katsina Teachers' Training...
...Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...
...electoral vote. Furthermore, the electoral college cannot keep pace with the nation's population shifts. The 1950 census determined each state's electoral total for 1960. Had the 1960 census figures been used, Richard Nixon would have won ten additional electoral votes. Finally, although custom is strong, only a few states have laws that bind the electors to cast their votes for their party's candidate...