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...Radcliffe custom of teas for the students to meet the candidates will take place at 3 p.m. March 3 in Agassiz living room and at 6:45 in the Cabot living room. Posters and stunts are forbidden at these affairs...
...accordance with the regular custom for House dances, Dudley has extended its invitation to all House members. The primary reason for this, Alch said, is to give certain resident students their first chance to meet the Commuters. Former Dudley men who are now living at the College are selling tickets in the House dining halls...
...weeks ago 79-year-old Speaker Edouard Herriot heaved himself up from his chair overlooking France's Assembly to announce that one of its members, Jacques Ducreux, 41, had been killed in an auto smashup. At once the other deputies stood up, according to custom, to wait for the expected eulogy. They knew this one would probably take time: after all, Monsieur Ducreux was a member of the executive committee of Herriot's own Radical Socialist Party. Herriot started off in style: he limned the pastoral beauties of the Vosges countryside where Ducreux came from, and recalled...
Saudi Arabia's polygamous old King Ibn Saud takes good care of his wives, both past & present. Last week a Cincinnati hearse manufacturer showed off a new $250,000 present the King is buying for his four present and some 120 former wives-20 new Cadillacs with custom-built bodies to make them desertproof and peekproof. The King will use them to carry his wives between the twin capitals of Riyadh and Mecca. Each car has six doors, accommodates six wives (plus chauffeur and attendant), has electric fans, special windows so the women...
...massive election was a triumph for the democratic process: of 173 million adults eligible to vote (80% of them illiterate), 100 million cast their ballots. Old customs held down the vote in some sections. Around Rajasthan, 3,000,000 women failed to get on the electoral rolls because they would not break with custom and declare their names...