Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader in the inboard field (its sales are more than three times those of Owens, its closest competitor), the boom is big enough for all. Owens sold $12 million worth of boats last year v. $1 million in 1953. Such companies as Matthews, Wheeler and Richardson, who specialize in custom-quality boats, have shared handsomely in the general boom...
Chaplain for the commencement will be the Reverend Richard E. Hanson, Pastor of the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, N.Y. The commencement speakers are the fathers of graduating seniors Barbara Ann Jones and Elizabeth Hanson, in accordance with Radcliffe custom...
...Coptic Christians of Egypt, who believe themselves to be the world's oldest Christian sect, celebrated the election of a new pope last week. The man who will also be looked to for guidance by Coptic leaders in Ethiopia, the Sudan and Libya was chosen, according to ancient custom, by lot. In Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark, a seven-year-old boy approached an envelope lying on the altar. Amid prayers, he opened the envelope and drew from it one of three slips, each bearing the name of a candidate for the office of "Most Holy Father...
Packaging Pools. As the market for swimming pools has changed, so have the methods of building and selling them. Along with custom jobs by some 2,700 pool contractors throughout the country, swimming pools are packaged and mass-marketed under established national names just as cars and boats...
...best parliamentarian the legislature ever had," says Democrat John Powers, now president of the state senate. In 1942, at the urging of Massachusetts Republicans who wanted to unseat an isolationist G.O.P. Congressman, Herter agreed to run for Congress, scraped by with some help from that old Massachusetts political custom, a gerrymander of his district...