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...waitresses ignored their studiously polite requests for service. The students continued to sit until closing time. Next morning they reappeared, reinforced by 25 fellow students. By last week their unique sitdown had spread through 14 cities in five Southern states in a far-ranging attack on the Jim Crow custom that Negroes may be served while standing at downtown lunch counters but may not be served if they sit down...
Just as the Christian Lent produced the custom of Mardi gras, so the Moslem fast of Ramadan, ninth and holiest month of the lunar calendar,* has long led to peculiar accommodations in Islamic countries. For 29 or 30 days every year, the devout, who must abstain from food, drink, tobacco and sex from dawn to sundown, make up for it by overindulging and undersleeping during the hours of darkness. When Ramadan, on its 32-year migration through the solar calendar, happens to fall in summer, many a weary Moslem gives up, sleeps the whole fasting day through. Tempers grow short...
...bills itself as "The West's Most Western Town," last week held its annual Parada del Sol rodeo. But money has turned Scottsdale into a form of effete West, a place of fabulously expensive watering spots (suites up to $120 a day) and chichi stores such as a custom perfume shop, which composes a unique aroma for each lady customer...
...This country will soon occupy its new custom-built capital, the newest city in the world...
...company's sets so much-and proved that he was right-that at 19 he was made chief engineer. After a series of other jobs and two trips around the world as a ship's radio operator, he founded his own company in Chicago to manufacture custom sound systems. In 1932 he sold 30% of his stock to supplier Magnavox, a company that made only components...