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...glad the German handshake [Feb. 17] is on its way out before serious damage is done to mankind and man's property. In West Germany last summer, I remarked on this custom to friends in Preetz-Holstein. One afternoon there was a fire that necessitated fire apparatus from neighboring villages. I bet my friends that there would be a big handshake all around before they got to the work at hand. We stood there and laughed while the fire continued its destruction and handshakes went around the fire brigade...
...recited the presidential oath of office at Dallas' Love Field. When he had first used the flash attachment a few minutes before, it had not worked, but after a bit of jiggling with the connection, all seemed well. The pictures were taken, and then Stoughton remembered his custom of shooting from different angles to show as many of the people present as possible. He had always done it, then sent out prints to the people involved as a record of the occasion. So he kept shooting...
Dunlop was in New York at the time, but when he met with SDS leaders the next day he began by saying simply that it wasn't his custom to report closed meetings to the newspapers and that he didn't intend to operate that way. Again, that...
...Finley, for 25 years Master of Eliot House, reserves his highest praise for those who possess the elusive and transcendent quality of flair. His own, of course, is legendary. In appearance he combines the best traits of Henry James' English gentleman and Robert Frost's New England farmer. Custom tailored three-piece suits with cuffs that really button set off a lined, craggy face. The white hair is long, sometimes over the collar, and the flaring bushy eyebrows suggest now an urbane devil, now a hoary Puck...
...solo speech. Unlike his freshmen classmates Percy and Hansen, he has not yet introduced any legislation. Nor does he expect to assault Senate tradition by making a floor speech soon. "I won't establish a record for speaking early," he says, "but I will not be bound by custom either. If I feel I must speak out, I will have no hesitation...