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...read. . . . After being without movies for several weeks we tied up at a Pacific island. ... I found myself sitting through pictures that I'd walked out in the middle of five years ago. ... I was convinced that instead of swapping films with other ships, as is the custom, we were bartering with the natives for ones they had produced themselves...
...eyes of party whips, M.P.'s filed from the House toward the two "lobbies" (voting rooms). There they flowed through the Aye or No doors, gave their votes, passed back to the House. When all were reassembled, they turned anxious eyes toward the main entrance. There, by old custom, the voting tellers for the winning side enter first...
...decked tent the Generals got a royal welcome. Ibn Saud liked the Lend-Lease pretties, gave a little Lend-Lease-in-Reverse: to each visitor an Arab costume, headgear and all; to the Generals, jewel-studded swords; to their aides, watches and daggers. The monarch, according to old Arab custom, pressed his guests to stay at least three days. But the Generals were not on vacation. Two hours after their arrival they said farewell, climbed aboard their modern magic carpet, turned Cairoward...
...debaters of the six who will compete in the triangular meet in April. Teams of three will go to New Haven to talk against Yale and stay here to debate Princeton, and two of the men will be eligible for the prizes, which held by the University in a custom unique in Harvard extra curricular activity. Candidates for the Council should leave their names with Phil Troen at Lowell House...
...conformity with time-honored Army custom the bristling new brooms of Gen erals Eisenhower and Devers swept through each other's former command. In North Africa General Devers, fresh from England, bore down on "reports," especially "lazy reports," demanded action in the flesh rather than on paper. In Britain General Ike, fresh from Africa, ordered the well-pressed Military Police into still sharper uniforms...