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...Dallas one day last week a sharply tailored old man climbed into a custom-built beige Chrysler, and headed through the wahooing streets to the fair grounds. There, with a minimum of speechifying, Bob Thornton, 73, snipped a ribbon with a pair of diamond-studded shears and proclaimed the opening of the 1953 State Fair-the biggest in Texas and therefore, in Texan logic, the biggest in the world. Then, as the calliope tuned up and the first of more than two million fairgoers poured down the midway, Thornton turned sadly back to the city and the unfinished business...
...fine old Dutch custom (when the winter ice is firm enough) is to stage a skating race, point to point, through towns of the northern Netherlands. Last week, proud of the synagogues restored or newly built since the end of Nazi occupation, Dutch Jews staged a variant: a synagogue auto rally, point to point...
...these figures are deceiving, according to the scientists, who insist that students are at the crucial age in drinking development during college. "Each advancing year increases the probability that experimentation in the adult custom of drinking will be tried,' they claim...
According to the Yalies, drinking has become a major custom of our society, and college drinking in merely a reflection of the times. They point out that in nine cases out of ten, both parents of the drinking student also imbibe...
...choice of three books as a background was not an inspiration, however, but a last resort. john Harvard's family had no coat of arms, so it was impossible to follow the Oxford custom of adopting a benefactor's shield. Instead, the Overseers patterned the design after those of the colleges of Trinity and the Sorbonne, which both used books as a part of their arms...