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...whole day they will prepare themselves for the paschal sacrifice by eating only milk products. Then, two hours before dusk, the men, in red tarbooshes and starched, white, ankle-length robes, will assemble around a shallow trench. Chanting the Pentateuch and ancient Hebrew prayers, they will wait until dusk, then bring the lambs to the edge of the trench and cut their throats (Exodus 12:6). Fathers will mark the foreheads of their first-born sons with blood. The priests will hand around bitter herbs and unleavened bread. The slaughtered lambs will be cooked. Facing the summit of the mountain...
...Olmedo, 23, went home to Peru for the first time since he won the Davis Cup for the U.S. almost single-handed in Brisbane last December. This time what looked like all of Lima tumbled out to wave Peruvian flags printed with his picture and to chant themselves hoarse. The Lima Lawn Tennis Club made him an honorary life member...
...chant-"Olmedo! Olmedo! Ol-me-do!"-crashed across the apron as the champion, tall in his crisp blue suit, threw his arms around Sponsor Harten in an abrazo. With tears running down his face, he hugged his mother and father, his seven-year-old sister and his five brothers. That afternoon at Lima's National Stadium, President Manuel Prado decorated him with the Sporting Laurel of Peru (First Degree). Olmedo posed with the Davis Cup. then played a fast exhibition match against a fellow Davis Cup team member, St. Louis' Earl Buchholz. Appropriately, Olmedo...
...least two causes for the large percentage of Yard-dwellers seem obvious. First there is the familiar chant, "Everybody lives in the Yard." Incoming Sophomores, especially those with Harvard fathers, often feel that the Yard is a part of College life not to be missed. Furthermore, the new Sophomore likes to seek friends at his own age level; in the Yard he is equal to all in years while being superior to most in scholastic attainment. In its circular, the A.P. Department proposes a compromise plan: let the new Sophomore live in the Yard for a term, and then...
Belafonte worries constantly about how to establish longevity, but he knows that as long as the Lead Man keeps moving, there will be an audience at his heels. As his own variation of an old West Indian chant...