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...with the "Princeton image" fixed in his mind, and in the day or two he is here he tends only to see that evidence which supports his preconceptions. This attitude is partially a product of unfamiliarity and misinformation, and partly the product of an unwillingness to see through the veil of loyalty to his own alma mater. But to base an article on such attitudes; and thereby to suggest as "Student Prince" did, that because one school is different from another it is Ipso facts inferior, is dangerously to approach the fault from which the CRIMSON is generally so free...
...Detroit's Latin Quarter-the festivities continued with a 6 p.m. reception at which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies as kielbasa (sausage) and sweet-and-sour sauerkraut. Toward midnight, as per Polish custom. Barbara Hoffa finally removed her veil and departed on her honeymoon, leaving Jimmy with only...
Princess Aisha herself proceeded to lead a determinedly emancipated life. She rode a horse in Western fashion, astride; her tastes in music leaned toward Benny Goodman rather than the reedy tunes of Araby; she indulged her preference for bikini bathing suits while disdaining the traditional Moslem veil. Her one notable concession to conservative convention was a promise to her father to marry any man he chose for her. ("I have complete confidence in the King. Love will come after marriage...
...getting the better of invention, a kind of bargain Taj Mahal is already infiltrating contemporary architecture as portents of failure." Chief practitioner of this kind of architecture, says Rudofsky, is Edward D. Stone, famed for the neo-Moorish latticework walls he wraps around his buildings: "He throws in a veil of mechanical ornament, a smokescreen of stone, so that you can't see the structure behind...
Veteran Vatican observers noted a few unusual aspects about the initial state visit of Belgium's austere and pious Queen Fabiola, 32. The white gown and veil she wore instead of the accustomed black was easily explained: she had asked Pope John XXIII for the ancient privilege of Roman Catholic queens. The reason for her other departures from the past -forgoing the protocol-prescribed trek up the Noble Staircase in favor of an elevator ride to the second-floor apartment of the Pope, failing to join her husband King Baudouin, 30, for the traditional call on the Vatican Secretary...