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...between her wedding to Scott and her disappearance, Evelyn Throsby Scott cashed some $223,000 worth of securities, in addition to drawing about $180,000 in income from her estate. When she disappeared, there was a lot of money lying around in a dozen-odd bank accounts and safe-deposit boxes. According to subsequent testimony, Scott, using forged signatures, helped himself liberally to the money, spent a bundle of $100 bills on travel, Las Vegas gambling and gifts for a shapely divorcee...
...scholars believe, that Abraham was born some 4,000 years ago. The land was inhabited by a non-Semitic people called the Sumerians. They, drained the marshes of the delta and built a highly developed civilization of irrigated fields, pastures and theocratic city states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from the inundation...
...CRISIS in Philippines will pinch Americans doing business there. To stop drain on dollar reserves, now at alltime low of $145 million, Philippine government has told U.S. subsidiaries that they may not send their dollar profits back home. And to check big imports, Manila now demands that local businessmen deposit 50% to 200% of value of their imports in advance...
...Hands ransacked the headquarters at No. 7 Persian Street; they searched Shoghi Effendi's safe-deposit box without success. All week long they met in secret session, were tight-lipped about rumors of stormy rivalry between two candidates for Guardian-one of them said to be an American. At last they announced the solution: there would be no new Guardian at all, but a nine-man council of Hands at Haifa, titled "Hands of the Cause of God on Holy Land." The new body will have no power to interpret scripture...
...courtyard; it duly disappeared and was replaced by a receipt signed by Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. Barti persuaded Barzilai to burn the receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more for a parcel containing King Solomon's throne from Elijah's cave on Mt. Carmel. Barzilai could not resist taking a peek and was chagrined to find nothing but stones. Naturally, said Barti, the angels...