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...Arab Republic decreed a restriction of the man's right of divorce throughout the twin provinces of Egypt and Syria. After Oct. 1, divorces can be obtained only in a court of law, with a fair provision made for the injured party. Even those husbands who wish to avail themselves of the Islamic privilege of having more than one wife (the Koran permits as many as four) must prove their need of an additional wife and submit to investigation by a social worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: The House of Obedience | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Petri and the other members of the committee, Eugene H. Zagat '61 and Thomas R. Wardell '62, plan to take this "brief" of the report to the chairmen of various student organizations to find out whether or not they would avail themselves of such a service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council May Suggest Entertainment Fund To Engage Stars | 1/14/1960 | See Source »

...Vleck commented that he plans to lecture on the theory of magnetism while at Oxford. He hopes to avail himself also of the opportunity to do research of Oxford's renowned Clarendon Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Vleck to Occupy Oxford Post in '61-62 | 1/6/1960 | See Source »

...despite good rhythmic effects, never really gets its beat off the ground. The two or three times the dancing turns lively suggest a last two or three rounds of ammunition desperately fired at the advancing battalions of boredom. Carol Lawrence and Howard Keel are agreeable leads, but to little avail. With none of the succulence of a great big old-fashioned dinner, Saratoga induces all of the somnolence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Away with Coffins. Spiraling ramps are not new in architecture. Assyrian King Sargon II wound a 6-ft. ramp around his 143-ft-tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C. What Wright did was avail himself of reinforced-concrete shell techniques to stand the structure on its narrower end, cantilever the floors inward, and top off the structure with glass, a material no ancient architect had to use on such a scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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