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Lebanon, half Christian and half Moslem, is a small, well-to-do nation that owes its prosperity to the common realization that the quarrels which divide it are bad for business and impossible to resolve. Almost torn apart by feuds a year ago until U.S. troops intervened, Lebanon still remembers its differences...
...handwritten notes, brought in to us by a Summer School student, were dropped in the Emerson Hall corridor between classes on Monday and were badly mutilated under foot. We are therefore unable to identify the author; but we do know he is an assistant professor, for in the torn, smudged corner of the title page one can still make out the three letters...
...that the longtime heir apparent, chirpy Herbert Morrison, was too old to take over. And the idol of the left, Aneurin Bevan, seemed too hotheaded. A compromise choice, Gaitskell found himself heading a party whose old-time religion had lost much of its appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal to the nation as a whole. Last week, as the biggest union of all-the powerful (1,300,000 members) Transport and General Workers-met for its biennial conference on the Isle...
Ohishi, only 19 when he suffered internal injuries in a traffic accident, seemed to have made a full recovery after surgeons patched up his torn stomach and intestines. But by 1934, when he was working as the village well digger, Ohishi found that he felt flushed and giddy, and his head got heavy ("like a sake hangover") soon after he ate bread or potatoes. Friends twitted him for secret drinking. In China, during World War II Army medics rated him "perfectly fit." So officers continued to abuse him for drunkenness, while enlisted buddies searched in vain for his source...
Quicksilver or Bones. For 45 days before the festival this year, 400 carpenters worked three shifts around the clock to build the carts, each 45 ft. high and 35 ft. wide. (After each year's ceremony, the carts are torn down and the lumber sold to contractors.) The deities themselves take two weeks of preparation. First they are taken from their thrones to the holy bathing pavilion and bathed with scented water from 108 pitchers. Then they are repainted and dressed for their ride...