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...American Massachusetts Institute of Technology there is by tradition a bad custom of ragging new students. It is perfectly legal for senior students to humbug the newcomers. A "school regulation" is in force whereby a student, having just entered the school, is blindfolded, taken to the suburbs, and then allowed to grope in the dark for his way home. It was in this way that a new student once fell into a hole of frozen water and got drowned. And, in the view of many senior students, this innocent boy who had lost his life "deserved it!" This bad custom...
...Washington suburbs, the newest teen-age game is called "rolling." In Michigan, where the practice has been going on for years, it is known as "threading the bushes." Around Houston, it's called "wrapping." And in Salt Lake City and eastern Massachusetts, where the custom is even a trifle passe, it is known by the most descriptive title...
...Vatican Council which has made Murray's appearance in Mem Church possible. Before the Council's endorsement of ecumenism, the prevailing custom of Roman Catholics was not to take part in services in Protestant churches, Price said...
...long been our annual custom to take a thorough look at the U.S. economy-its performance in the past year and what it is likely to do in the year ahead. In our shop phrase we call it "the year-end business review." This week it takes the form of a cover story, written by Marshall Loeb and edited by Champ Clark, on one of the most astute money managers...
...flares out slightly at the side with twin vents in the back. Padding squares off the shoulders. There are four buttons on the sleeve, and - a vestige from days when gentlemen rolled back their cuffs to duel or simply wash their hands - the buttons unbutton. The look of a custom-made Savile Row suit is unmistakable. So is its durability, mainly because of thousands of hand-stitched seams in the canvas foundations. For all its vaunted prestige, the suit's greatest virtue may actually be its price: even with a 21% import duty, a suit delivered...