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...Federal Reserve Board, complained last month: "Now we have women marching in the streets! If only things would quiet down!" Washington Post Co. President Kay Graham left a recent party at the house of an old friend, Columnist Joseph Alsop, because her host insisted upon keeping to the custom of segregating the ladies after dinner. Other social habits are in doubt. A card circulating in one Manhattan singles bar reads...
Terry's only regret in leaving Phoenix was in having to leave behind his Custom Street Machine. "She was beautiful. A maroon falcon sprint jacked up in the back, with meats, and a 427 cu. in. hemi-under-glass mounted in the ashtray...
Since Jefferson's day, the U.S. Senate has had a rule that no member can be absent from its sessions without permission. That quaint regulation is in a class with the custom that a gentleman always dresses for dinner or walks on the lady's curb side...
...Russia last year, he asked to visit the mosque containing Nasser's burial place. "After all," he said, "we're on our way to Mosque-Cow, aren't we?" At the tomb, when a member of his party removed his shoes according to Islamic custom and revealed a hole in his sock, Muskie shrugged: "We're in a holy place, aren't we?" When he learned that the Russians were being difficult and might not issue visas to his press entourage, he had one ready for that too: "Well, Soviet...
Meanwhile, Brown, which gave Harvard quite a bit of trouble in last year's quarterfinals, is virtually a hopeless case as far as a bid is concerned. The Bruins have lost 10 of their 18 games, and have contests with Harvard and Cornell remaining. And Yale, as is its custom, is still another year away...