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...until the white thread becomes distinct to you from the black thread of the dawn." But all through the long daylight hours of Ramadan, the holy month in which the Koran was revealed to Mohammed, good Moslems must abstain from food and sex according to the most rigorous rules. Strict devotion to Ramadan lays a heavy burden on modern urban living: people became irritable and ineffectual on the job. Tunisia's up-to-date President Habib Bourguiba recently clamped down on the all-night nightclubs where celebrants make up for daylight denials, and boldly persuaded considerable numbers...
...sidewalk incident, 1,000 Negroes silently marched to the white-columned first capitol of the Confederate states to pray and sing the Star-Spangled Banner. In retaliation for the march. Governor John Patterson ordered nine Negro students expelled from Alabama State College, placed 20 others on strict probation...
...nomination, Lott accepted as his running mate Brazil's current Vice President, rabble-rousing P.T.B. Boss Joao ("Jango") Goulart. With Goulart came a platform that includes a broad right-to-strike law for Brazilian workers, strict curbs on the remittance of profits abroad, land reform, profit sharing for industrial employees. This platform brought automatic Communist backing, an estimated 200,000 votes...
...around disagreements on how to measure underground blasts, the U.S. proposed to check all those above a 4.75 rating- on the standard seismographic "earthquake scale." The U.S. also proposed a program of joint research to improve the detection of small bombs underground, and eventually bring all tests under strict international control...
...English-bred dog for a reported $8,500 three years ago and have scarcely seen him since; few owners who aspire to blue ribbons have the time or skill to handle their own dogs. Clara Alford, a half-Cherokee professional handler from Catoosa, Okla., put Gossie on the strict regimen of a Peke show dog, e.g., no romping with other dogs or children (he might damage an eye), no baths (his hair might mat). She stoked him on chopped steak laced with wheat germ, brushed his flowing reddish hair from two to nine hours a day. For eleven months...