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The best news of all for Moslem women was the complete abolition of the Bait al-Taah. After October, whenever a distraught wife runs home to mother, she can be won back only by a husband's pleading, not by a policeman. For diehard Moslem men, the new matrimonial...
Between the years when Sir Isaac Pitman and John R. Gregg devised their competing shorthand systems (as any stenographer knows, Gregg's is now predominant in the U.S.), a man named Andrew Graham developed a Pitmanish shorthand scheme that resembled, as much as any script, Arabic. By the time...
Show-Place Farm. The idea of a poultry farm in Lebanon first came to Stevenson five years ago when he was an Esso Standard assistant regional manager. To learn Arabic he hired Khalil Ghattas, an agriculture student at the American University of Beirut, who spent the lesson time talking about...
(See Cover) From the doorway of a tumble-down Singapore tenement one morning last week, the wife of a Chinese stevedore watched her five naked children scrambling in the teeming street and prayed that the baby she was soon to bear would be a boy. In a camp for Palestinian...
When Allyn pushes his company into a new country, he tries to give the market the product it wants, not the product he thinks it ought to have. For example, N.C.R.'s bookkeeping machines for the Middle East make entries from right to left as the Arabs do, have...