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...Craig Vetter to crash. He spent two months in a wheelchair, learning to hate what many disabled persons call the "chrome-plated torture rack." Now, one year later, Industrial Designer Vetter, 39, has put his own well-engineered, light, agile and elegant wheelchair design on the market. As yet custom made, Vetter's chair also comes in a sports model for wheelchair tennis, basketball or marathons...
...matter of luck; and occasionally it demands gall and not much more. When Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 came out for The Crimson, as they said in those days, he didn't have a lot of reportorial experience. He did, however, have pluck. And so, despite another longstanding custom--which forbade candidates for the paper from talking to the president of the College--he asked President Eliot who he was backing in the upcoming presidential election. McKinley, Eliot (not surprisingly) replied, and the rest of the Republican ticket. The answer and the subsequent front story must have pleased the young comper...
Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, and a member of the committee, said he did not expect to received a written answer from the Polish Military Council. "It's not their custom" to respond to foreign protests, Baranczak said, but he added that the pressure of opinion, "especially from influential parties at Harvard," could be important...
...addition al $50 a day tax free while the legislature's work is under way: an average of $12,000 apiece this year. Each lawmaker receives a monthly car allowance of $265 plus a gasoline credit card to use without limit. Many collect an extra $6 for custom car washes. There are other travel perquisites: many legislators traveled to Washington at state expense to lobby Congress for the tax exemption on their $50 per diem...
...Prime Minister sought to scare his countrymen into mending their free-spending ways, his message was ill timed. It came just before the manifestation of a peculiarly Italian custom, tredicesima. That is a 13th-month salary, paid by law and tradition to workers at all levels every Christmastime. Some 21 million Italians received a total of $9.2 billion tredicesimas last week, and few would be so un-Italian as to save a lira of it. Instead, the windfall will go for pasta, parmigiano and panettone, and for spumante and sambuca to grace their holiday tables. Any lire left over will...