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According to Monro, there is no written rule that bars students from appearing; it has merely been a custom of the Board since 1900 to do so. But this policy should be "scrutinized and tested regularly," he said...
Under a Canopy. Shemittah, so Orthodox Jews believe, is a commandment from the Lord, although Biblical critics believe that the custom originated as a primitive means of crop rotation. "For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield," God ordered Moses in Exodus. "But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow." Normally, Israel's substantial minority of Orthodox Jews transfer their property through the chief rabbinate to an accommodating Arab. Because of pressure from religious parties, the Israeli government ordered the rabbinate to sell all public lands as well...
...Custom Caddy. Soon Elvis Presley was upping the ante, wearing a full suit of gold lame. So did Elvis' imitators, and now Liberace complains, "I really have to exaggerate to look different and to top them." He also has to spend. His suits run $10,000 apiece, and they tarnish so fast that he needs ten replacements a year. Even his economies come high-like his $8,000 diamond buttons, which, he maintains, "are very practical, because they're studded in and out, and I can wear them with any suit...
Fresh Recruits. No one on the present White House staff-or possibly in Washington-can match Dick Goodwin's swift facility for custom prose. Some of the presidential speechwriting chores will now be handled by Harry McPherson, 36, a University of Texas law graduate who had worked for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, the State Department and the Pentagon before joining the White House staff last month. Helping out with speeches if necessary will be Press Secretary Bill Moyers, General Aide Jack Valenti and Special Assistant Douglass Cater, an old journalistic hand...
...build a Palestinian-Arab army, and only Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt had paid their dues for the political arms. In response, the deadbeat states demanded that Shukairy account for the funds he had already received, and one member accused Shukairy of spending $8,400 for custom-made suits at Rome's chic Caraceni tailors...