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During his meteoric rise in Kenya's black nationalist movement, moon-faced Tom Mboya, 31, has taken two wives, both of them in the simple tribal custom that permits any marriage to be dissolved whenever the partners decide to separate. Neither union worked, but last week he announced that he would take another stab at matrimony. This time the marriage would take place on a more permanent basis-in the Roman Catholic Church, to which Mboya has belonged ever since his childhood days in Catholic mission schools...
...their names (in Hebrew), their parents' names, their residence, assurance that both husband and wife freely accede to the action. The scribe writes down the information in Aramaic on a piece of parchment, making sure that the decree comes out no longer than the twelve lines established by custom. When the scribe is finished, the document is handed to the husband, who gives it to the wife. A rabbi then tears the edges of the parchment, and the marriage is sundered. Cost: nothing for the poor, up to $200 for those who can afford it. After that...
Well, "shame! shame!" I cry. In the future my custom is reserved for the Uptown and Central Square. Cato
...title is Dhéry's first gag. La Belle Américaine is not a dame but an automobile: a custom-built 1958 Olds convertible complete with bar, refrigerator, automatic everything and six blast-your-eyes-out headlights. This insolent chariot is sold to Hero Dhéry, a boob in the tube works, for the preposterous price of $100. Reason: the owner in his will bequeathed the price of the car to his mistress, but authorized his wife to make the sale...
Previous Cambridge Mayoral elections have varied in length, with some retiring hundreds of ballots and lasting until April or May before a final decision could be made. In recent years the custom has been to rotate the job of Mayor, so Crane's re-election comes as something of a surprise...