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...Well," Kenny concluded, "if it'd make a man feel better, I'd shake hands with his foot. It's just custom. Glad to meet...
...Rome on charges relating to the kidnaping of Eugene Paul Getty II, 17, grandson of the American oil billionaire. After almost six months of captivity, young Getty-minus his right ear-was released last month when his grandfather paid $2,890,000 in ransom. The kidnapers, following an old custom of Calabrian bandits, had cut off his ear. They then sent it to a Rome newspaper to convince his grandfather that they meant business...
...inducement is free tickets. The N.C.A.A permits every player four tickets to each of his team's games-and then winks at the common practice of scalping those tickets. For the recent Sugar Bowl, Alabama Split End Wayne Wheeler hoped to get $100 per seat. At Alabama, the custom is so established that there is an unwritten rule requiring players who still have tickets on Thursdays before games to dump them at any price, so that they can concentrate on practice...
...Your Essay "Patients' Rights and the Quality of Medical Care" [Dec. 17] brings to mind an ancient Chinese custom. The Chinese, it is said, used to hire a doctor on a retainer and made regular payments to him as long as they remained well. When they became ill, they were guaranteed treatment, but the payments stopped until health was restored...
ATLANTA. The inauguration of Maynard Holbrook Jackson, 35, as the first black and youngest mayor in the city's history inspired at least one departure from custom. In days gone by, mem bers of the tightly organized Atlanta power structure and their families and friends could comfortably accommodate themselves in the 200-seat aldermanic chamber. This week more than 6,000 people from all parts of the city were due to fill the 4,600-seat Civic Center auditorium and adjacent rooms to see Jackson, white City Council President Wyche Fowler and 18 city councilmen (nine white, nine black...