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Later, Van Fleet visited Greek soldiers celebrating their Easter on-the front, joined in the old Greek Easter custom of cracking eggs. Van Fleet's egg outlasted all others, which means good fortune...
...Paris, General Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his farewell tour of the NATO countries to attend the funeral Mass of a friend, French Hero General Henri Coudraux, a deputy chief of staff to SHAPE. Ike followed the old French custom which calls for chief mourners, whether lay or clerical, to dip a silver goupillon in holy water and sprinkle it on the coffin. Later, Ike took to his bed with a throat infection and fever, which further delayed his goodbye tour...
...Elizabeth II (in her first official public appearance since the funeral of her father) performed the traditional Maundy Thursday rites, the paupers' footwashing had been reduced to the merest symbolism: white linen aprons worn by her yeomen bodyguards. In the Abbey ceremony, however, the Queen followed faithfully the custom of her ancestors in distributing white purses of maundy money (26 pence worth of specially minted silver coins) to 26 men and 26 women (one for each year of her age), all carefully chosen and suitably aged and indigent...
...Administration draws a line, however, on this custom of casual clothing. Halters and barefeet are not permitted in classes, conferences, or the dining room, and shorts must not be more than three inches above the knee...
Another pleasant musical custom centers around the bi-annual American tour of the D'Oyle Carte Opera Company. When the troupe reaches Boston, the entire group comes to Leverett House for a dinner, with an impromptu Gilbert and Sullivan concert afterwards...