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...doing when it allowed Jack Langer to go to Israel, and it knew that the NCAA would punish it for violating a rule that had been made clear long before the Maceabiah games took place. But they did it anyway and now Yale, as seems to be the custom nowadays, wants "anisette." Well, they won't get it. because there are enough sensible schools left in the NCAA to insure that college athletics remains what it always has been- well regulated, and within the best traditions of amateurism...
...gown. Miss Treyz's fee is the difference between the wholesale and retail price. When a choice is made-as many as 50 possibilities are shown to Mrs. Nixon by designers who drop into her New York hotel suite at appointed hours during her stay-the dress is custom-made and withdrawn from production to avoid a run-in with a ditto...
...Geneva's new air terminal, the scene is a recurrent attraction: a bald and stubby executive clad in a redlined cape and a Pierre Cardin jacket buttoned to the chin clambers from a custom-built black Lincoln Continental. With him comes an eyebrow-raising entourage: one male aide and four mini-skirted lasses of Playboy pulchritude. The normally expressionless Swiss faces at the ticket counter light up with half-amused, half-respectful recognition. "It's Bernie," whispers a Swissair hostess to a new colleague. Taking at least two of his curvaceous companions with him, Bernie quickly boards...
Radcliffe seniors will also be encouraged to compete for the traditional Commencement parts-formal speeches, one in Latin and one in English, given by members of the baccalaureate class. The Parts symbolize the custom of earlier Harvard Commencements, when seniors defended theses in public before receiving their degrees...
...adult life, Benjamin Freeman has been on a buy-now-never-pay-later kick. At 55, he has rarely held a job; he collects elegant, useless gewgaws-custom-made pool cues, secret listening devices-mainly to solace his loneliness by substituting objects for friends. He has become, in fact, a confirmed charge-o-maniac, who seeks public notoriety and recognition by becoming the ultimate delinquent consumer in a consumption-mad society...