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...much of a rise out of Britons. Sending Charles to Cheam was not quite the prescription of that young critic of royalty. Lord Altrincham, who "would have liked to have seen him enter a state-run primary school." But it was certainly more democratic than the old royal custom that prescribed for all heirs to the throne a private education under governess and tutors in the palace schoolroom...
...Though Kelly's special privileges as a political prisoner were ordered officially canceled, well-wishers streamed in and out of his cell as they always had, with no regard for regular visiting hours. There did seem to be an unusual number of women. But in accord with prison custom, the women were passed without inspection. When the last of them had left, a guard looked in Kelly's cell. Kelly was gone. Behind him he left a telltale box of cosmetics...
...homemade floodlights. Then the bell swinger-Father Oswald, Anglican priest in charge of St. Philip's and a member of Britain's Society of St. Francis-blessed his troupe of parishioners, who made the sign of the cross and climbed onto the cart to revive a medieval custom, the morality play...
Bareheaded in the sunshine, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines stood and waved one morning last week as his open Packard purred past more than 1,000.000 shouting citizens of Mexico City. At the Chamber of Deputies the President launched into his yearly report on the state of Mexico. By custom established in his four previous reports, the President spoke in his flat voice for more than three hours. But from time to time he dropped hard facts of progress that stood out like milestones. Items...
Liberal Party custom dictates that a Protestant English Canadian and a Roman Catholic French Canadian alternate the party's leadership. The only Protestant of English ancestry prominent enough to succeed Louis St. Laurent is Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, boyish, bow-tied, onetime (1945) Ambassador to the U.S. and External Affairs chief throughout the St. Laurent regime. In that office he gave Canada (pop. 16.5 million) a great say in Western affairs; e.g., the U.N.'s Middle East police force was a result of a Pearson resolution. His only serious political trouble occurred at home, when...