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...strange European custom to undertake an occasional feat of endurance purely for the personal satisfaction and honor of taking part. Some are even willing to pay for the privilege. I wonder how many American crews would have entered if there had been a $ 100,000 prize...
...they also lost 26 seats and their comfortable 16-seat majority in the last Parliament. The upstart Liberals got their biggest vote in history, but it converted into disproportionately few seats. Confronted with those agonizingly close results, Prime Minister Edward Heath advised Queen Elizabeth that, contrary to British custom, he would not resign in favor of Labor's Harold Wilson but would try to keep his embattled party in power by forming a new government...
When the race began, it shaped up as a battle between two big, custom-built racing machines, the 74-ft. ketch Pen Duick VI from France and the 72-ft. ketch Great Britain II. Both are captained by veteran sailors. Pen Duick Skipper Eric Tabarly won a singlehanded transatlantic race in 1964; Great Britain II's captain, Chay Blyth, made a solo circumnavigation three years...
...somewhat patronizing and wary. Delivering one of his more earnest and sweeping statements of the conversation, he said, "These are highly emotional times. People don't want calm analysis; they want their prejudices confirmed. The university, the church, the press, all institutions are under challenge. It's the Greek custom of killing the messenger who brings the bad news...
...passes by there on the way to his field, he throws another stone on the pile, so that the devil will stay away." The padre took a long sip of beer from the glass on the table and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "Or their custom of spilling out some of their drink before they have any of it to give thanks to Pachamamma, their Mother Earth. It's left over from their pagan beliefs...