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Social customs among the fossil cultures have been unchanged by the progress of the rest of the world. Example: the ceremonies among some Chaco tribes when a girl reaches puberty. She cowers in a hut with a blanket over her head while long lines of older women parade around her, striking the ground with sticks, rattling bunches of deer hooves. Medicine men beat drums. Young men, masked like evil spirits, howl on the outskirts, try to break through the picket line. The coming-out party lasts a month. Then the pickets disperse; the girl throws off the blanket, takes...
Like all other departments of the University, the two-month-old Quonset hut school is very much in demand. 100 student-parents have entered their children on the growing waiting list, with no expansion of the nursery planned at this time...
Constant readers decoded it at a glance. It wasn't the second verse of the Hut-Sut Song, but the shortest way of saying that a man who had once slugged an umpire had now been arrested on a charge of picking the pockets of a sleeping citizen...
...squeeze the natives out of "Native Reserves" into the gold and diamond mines became the first order of business for all South Africa's "bosses," from Rhodes to Smuts. First a hut tax was imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form...
Last week, around a track near London where racing dogs joined him on Thursday and Saturday nights, Bert ambled along at a casual gait until he had walked an even 1,000 miles. He rested as little as possible, slept in a little hut off the track, ate crab sandwiches and tea, went wandering off his beaten path occasionally-once to see himself in a newsreel. He smashed to bits a 137-year-old world's record of 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours; his time was only one-third that...