…TIE MICHIGAN DAILY (RASITIC BUSH: Pagan Customs Create Modern Mistletoe Legend I N OW By GEORGE LEVIN Mistletoe has developed into one of the females' favorite devices for man-trapping at Christmas- time. According to the legend, if a girl stands under some mistletoe and is not kissed, ,she will not marry. No true man would pin such a fate on any woman. Mistletoe is a parasitic ever- green bush about four feet high. The mistletoe used at ...…
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…THE MICHIGAN DILY eace on Earth' Guides Unity Tries fly HARVEY MOLOTCH During the middle ages, Chris- ties at the beginning of the Ren- Although the need for Euro- tianity was the factor which uni- aissance. an unity is today usually sup- In modern times, the idealistic rted for economic and politi- fied all Europe. But the church Count Khudinov Killargy of Aus- -reasons, the first attempts was forced out of dominance by tria pressured ...…
… 10 1 ae Solid South-Solid in'60? Vol. VI1, No. 2 3tr4&tvn Dat MAGA SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1960 Continued from Page Seven election of the uncommitted slate of presidential electors. Idle Sen. Stennis silently supports this, while campaigning Sen. James 0. Eastland reluctantly mentions Kennedy once in a while. - In spite of all this, however, tradition runs thick and segrega- tion is not pressing issue. These factors should help offset the o...…
…10THE MICHIGAN DAILY STEARNS COLLECTION: 'U' Given Instrument Display By LORA KRAPOHL If all fifteen hundred musical instruments in the display cases of the Stearns collection in Hill Aud. joined together in a concert on Christmas Eve, University stu- dents would hear the concert of the centuries. Wind instruments from all over the world. one dating back to about the time of Christ's birth would make up one part of the orchestra. Trumpets, t...…
…American Voter and the Political Campaign The Political Campaign ill Votes Be Changed By All the Hoopla? NAN MARKEL ABRAHAM LINCOLN refused to move off his froht porch in the months before his first election. William Jennings Bryan per-' fected the whistlestop, made more than 600 speeches in three months while campaigning aganst McKin- ley in 1900, and lost the election. Yet, with unwarranted faith in the loudspeaker and the crowd, campaign...…
…THE MIC fTGAN DAILY w ORIGIN IN PRE-HYSTERICAL ERA: Traces Form Changes of Chanukah Bush A Modern Holiday Fable By HARRY PERLSTADT The chanukah bush originated in a pre-hysterical society, which though quite advanced was nev- ertheless self-destructive. This society held sacred an ob- ject which then termed Tennen- baum. Modern research on their language has translated this to mean ten-in-bomb, a reference to a polyatomic bomb. The bomb was b...…
… United States and Latin America REPUBLICANS HOPE TO GAIN: The Campaign for Congr Has the United States Failed in Its Program For Developing Other American Countries Because Its Aid Has Been the Wrong Type? Continued from Page Eight motely resembling the Marshall, Plan.t' Just to keep it nonpartisan, the Truman administration said ap- proximately the same thing whent it excluded Latin America from its massive post-war rehabilitation program...…
…THE M C IGAN DAILY ntries Observe Season with Native Custom L HARRAH Americans may to the greatest hristmas season, ainly have no In practically every Christian untry around the world, the ople practice some rituals or stoms that make the Yuletide asoi unique to them. Swedeni In Sweden, one of the beautiful ung ladies in each household rtrays Saint Lucia, dressed inE hite with a brilliant red sash out her waist and wearing an tonishin...…
… The Problem of the Presidential Campaign 1 i i 1 crete solution brought forth to at- O ALL IN ALL the campaign tempt to solve the problem of the has been fast moving and two Chinas or the United States- hard hitting, but not exactly to Cuba tensions. Each side was an- the point. It seems a poor reflec- xious to criticize the other, but tion on the American voting pub- offered little in any positive sense. lic that in a campaign as long as t...…
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… t... and Latin America Have We Forced Cuba Into the Soviet Camp Beause of Past Relations ? Election Results 1952 and 1956 U.S. and Latin A By JOHN ROBERTS V who opposed him, rallied the poor urban workers and came to pow- er with their backing. Subsequent revolutions in Colombia, Vene- zuela, and Bolivia have also been popularly supported. And of course the best and most recent exam- ple is Cuba, The Cuban revolution is at once an ind...…
…The Solid South- Solid in '60? Can Nixon Hope To Hold the States - Ike Carried for the Republicans?, By MICHAEL HARRAH T WAS A cold November day in 1860 when a group of delegates in Charleston ominously announced that South Carolina considered the recent election of President Abra- ham Lincoln a distinct threat to the very existence of that state. In view of that, South Carolina, "with deep regret," seceeded from the Union, ultimately touchi...…
