A postcard mailed to a retirement home on the Baltic island of Gotland finally reaches its destination, 50 years after being mailed from the Swedish mainland. Sent in October 1955, it arrived last month bearing a lottery number. The card, sent to a former employee at the Avallegarden retirement home in Klintehamn, was mailed by a friend in Finspang, some 90 miles away.

Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch will stop selling some of its T-shirts after a national boycott by teenage girls who objected to slogans on the apparel such as "Who needs brains when you have these?". The teen-oriented company, often criticized for its suggestive advertising featuring scantily-clad young models, did not specify which T-shirts it would pull.

North Korea's communist government urges women in the country to sport traditional Korean clothes instead of pants. Joson Yeosung (Woman) magazine says, "Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U. S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the rotten bourgeois lifestyle inside North Korea. "

Police in Papua New Guinea detain 320 people for performing sorcery and belonging to religious cults. Belief in witchcraft is common in the mountainous South Pacific island. Police raided three villages Monday near the city of Lae, on the northern coast, and detained leaders of a "cargo cult" and their followers.

A new line of t-shirts being sold by Abercrombie and Fitch are reportedly causing some controversy. The shirts, marketed to teenage girls, bear slogans such as "Give me something to scream about," "I had a nightmare I was a brunette," and "I'd look great on you. "