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That once spendid galleon, the Republican Party, is admittedly landlocked. It is not defunct; no party which polls sixteen million votes is dead, unless the official pronouncements of the dominant party make...
Still stranger documentation on this tribe is found in Gari-Gari, the work of a celebrated Austrian anthropologist. Visiting eleven peoples in the Anglo-Sudan, he brought back 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film. Sixteen of the 116 remarkable pictures listed in the index of Gari-Gari have been omitted from the U. S. edition of the book, for reasons that observers of the others can readily comprehend. Anthropologist Bernatzik observed natives who cut terrible ornamental scars on their bodies, who wrestled in costumes that gave their matches the appearance of cockfights, native beauties who made...
...Sixteen fellowships have been awarded for Harvard's new course in Street Traffic Research to police officers, traffic engineers, and motor vehicle administration officers from all over the country as well as one man from England. The awards carry a stipend of $1200 plus up to $200 for travel and field investigations...
Although there is little liveliness in Author du Coudray's discussions of the metaphysics of diplomacy, the high point of her book is her account of the Congress of Vienna which cost the Austrian Emperor $30,000,000 and was attended by "five sovereigns, two hundred and sixteen heads of families and a host of lesser princes, ambassadors, envoys and intruders." Fourteen hundred horses were kept for their use. Court dinners were served on 40 tables. An army of secret police spied on the guests, so that every day the Austrians knew what had happened in bedrooms, at luncheons...
Mathematically, however, the calculations are faulty; quality is unimpreachable, but quantity has been skimped. Taking the average age of customers as 40 years, two minutes seems the minimum time allowance necessary. The Governing Boards have only prepared for relays of sixteen. Simple calculation shows that after 24 hours, 500 guests of one classification or another, all of them impatient, will still be in line. This bids fair to delay the next event on the program...