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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...
...vote. State legislatures surrendered their privilege of choosing the electors, gave in to a new system by which political parties nominated electors and the people voted for them. Over the years, the electors became mere automatons to carry out the public will. One by one, the states adopted the custom of casting all their electoral ballots for the candidate who carried a popular plurality, however small. That winner-take-all plan increased the possibility that a candidate could win an electoral majority by hair-breadth victories in big-vote states while still losing the nationwide popular vote...
...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...
Prodigious Detour. Koestler dwells lovingly on some of the more incongruous (to Westerners) aspects of Yoga, including the "painful [Hindu] obsession with the bowel functions, which permeates religious observances and social custom." Like many a Westerner before him, he was impressed with such yogi feats as reversing peristalsis to take in fluids through the anus and urethra, but was depressed by the far-out theories that went with them-such as that the sperm (bindu) is stored in the head and should be prevented from leaving the body at all costs. The result, says Koestler, is that a large number...