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...Mexico one day last week, thousands of Señoritas were relying on 13 pennies and a prayer to land a husband. The day was June 13, the 720th anniversary of the death of St. Anthony of Padua. An old Mexican custom guarantees that if a girl begs 13 centavos from 13 men, burns 13 candles and prays to St. Anthony on his day, she will get her hombre...
Yale's newest buildings appear to be the oldest, for their antiquity was planned in advance and custom-made. Upperclassmen eat in baronial halls, may sit under imposing chandeliers or by an imported Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls. Yale's Divinity School looks as if it might have been moved up from Williamsburg; the university library looks like a cathedral ("Must I genuflect?" a bemused visitor once exclaimed); its main power plant is clothed in stone to look like a Gothic tower...
These are closed at present. Those who wish to go on a waiting list may do so at the Custom House, 7th Floor, State Street, Boston...
...bull as listless as Rosinante. The aficionados booed, hissed, threw programs and cushions into the ring. Police tried in vain to quell the uproar. No one had seen anything like it in Spain for twelve years-since Franco came to power and banned bullring demonstrations, a beloved Spanish custom. Howled one spectator: "We want bulls for our money...
...onetime princely state of Hyderabad in Central India has an old custom called yetti. This is a system by which police and revenue officers combine with the deshmukhs (rich landlords) to force tenant farmers to work without wages. No one took much notice of yetti until 1945, when the Communists organized a peasant uprising, murdered several deshmukhs and started to redistribute their lands...