Notes on U.S. habits, customs, manners & morals:
¶ In Lumberton, N.C., James Bledsoe, a 33-year-old member of the Croatan Indians, was jailed for slashing two of his fellow tribesmen and drinking their blood.
¶ U.S. teen-agers were in the throes of a new fad: squirting each other (and unwary teachers) with repeating water pistols. The junior gunmen got the idea from some of their fathers, who used the same weapons on women's legs at the American Legion Convention in Manhattan. But they had improved on the older generation's technique: they loaded up with ink, perfume, turpentine, ammonia, oil, whiskey, beer and...
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