Word: benefited
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Other easing of the harsh Wahabi code can be seen at every hand. Goal posts stand far out in the desert for the benefit of passing nomads who have taken up soccer. Thieves now get their right hands chopped off in the public square only after the third offense. A doctor first administers a local anesthetic, bandages the stump, and then rushes the convict off by ambulance to a hospital, where, like all Saudis, he gets free medical care. The penalty for adultery is still death by stoning, but there has not been an execution in a decade...
...edition of his treatise on Trusts, Scott received the University's highest faculty award, the Ledlie Prize. The award is given every second year to the individual at Harvard who "has by research, discovered or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind...
...Balthus painting of two children in his Vallauris villa. Another is Minister of Culture André Malraux, who three months ago flabbergasted Paris by making the eccentric Balthus director of the Villa Medici, the home of the academy that France established 295 years ago in Rome in order to benefit from Italian models and taste in painting and architecture...
...alumna of the Juilliard School of Music and the Ziegfeld Follies, Soprano Jane Pickens married millionaire Manhattan Investment Banker William C. Langley in 1954, gave up her TV show to juggle benefit balls and paint. Working in her Park Avenue apartment and at her Westbury, L.I., country home, she developed what one art authority called "an innocent eye." Wondered she: "Is that good or bad?" Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele...
...beard trimmed with special three-day-beard scissors, and audition little girls to play opposite Gigot (the female "lead must speak English with a slight French accent and be five to eight years old). Gleason's role is pantomime, and must be choreographed for the benefit of lighting technicians and carpenters. Kelly will lead him through part of it ("You're walking down a street, you see a little girl, you see a bird"). Then the partners, with Gleason still in costume, pile into Jackie's turquoise and Burgundy Rolls (bar, phone, TV, refrigerator, stereo...