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...FINAL LESSON in military custom focused on the salute. "The upper arm should be parallel with the ground, and the forearms should be rigid--put those forearms in a wooden splint," Henderson says. "If you use your left hand, you may stick out," he adds. The pointers may come in handy someday--Henderson says he hopes many of the cadets will go on to Air Force careers. If they do, they'll be able to skip basic training. "You'll be going in with two stripes on your shoulder," Henderson tells them. "When I was at Lackland, a man with...
Harvard's Charles Walter Arden Bott scored all but four of the Crimson's points, as is his custom. Kip McKenzie had the other four. The "B" team fared less well, losing to the Cadets...
...Azorean customs often led to cultural clashes in the United States. Even now, a report on Cambridge Portuguese shows that some families do not allow their daughters to date or attend many social functions unless they are planning to marry their escorts. This Portuguese custom has precipitated fights between the generations in immigrant households...
Another Portuguese custom, one often misunderstood by Americans, is family solidarity. Children are often expected to drop out of high school to help support the family; every ablebodied member is supposed to help bring in the money. This problem can be especially acute for Portuguese immigrants: they need education to get good jobs, but they need money in the meantime...
Even if they had succeeded in striking a bargain, a further step would be required: putting an end to the anomaly by which Canada cannot amend its constitution-the British North America Act of 1867-without the approval of Britain's Parliament. However, by custom even that requires unanimity on the part of the provincial governments, and since the Ottawa conference made plain that this was impossible, the "patriation" of the constitution, as Canadians put it, was out of reach by traditional means...