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...from 400 admiring guests. It was all for Mark Sidney Davis, the adopted son of Actress May Britt and black Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., who was converted to Judaism in 1954. Sammy toasted May and his present wife, Altovise, a singer, then presented Mark with a set of the Encyclopaedia Judaica...
...rest," she jokes-and she still writes about the women's movement, which she has been involved in since her teens. Her advocacy of women's rights has not lessened over the years, and she wrote an essay, "Woman, a Technological Castaway," for the 1973 Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook. "In every marriage there are two marriages," she wrote. "His and hers. His is better . . . What man now calls woman's natural feminine mentality is the unnatural slave mentality he forced on her, just as he forced it on the blacks. He made her the 'house nigger...
Died. William Benton, 72, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut and publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; in Manhattan. Benton helped work his way through Yale as a high-stake auction-bridge player, later gave up a Rhodes scholarship and disappointed family hopes for a ministerial career to become a salesman, then an advertising copywriter. In the firm he established with Chester Bowles, he pioneered in radio advertising and programs that used studio audiences, and retired a millionaire from Benton & Bowles at 35. In 1943, as a vice president of the University of Chicago, he acquired the faltering Encyclopaedia Britannica from Sears...
...rules defining admissible trial evidence have been built piecemeal over the years until they now resemble a cross between the Talmud and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Each rule was usually added for a specific reason, but they vary from state to state, from one of the 93 federal districts to another, even, according to the judge's discretion, from courtroom to courtroom. All too often, the complexity actually impedes a court's efforts to dispense justice. Last week, exercising its administrative authority over the federal judicial system, the Supreme Court issued a 45-page set of uniform rules...
...will Japan's threatened partnership with the U.S. also survive? There is a communications gap between the two nations that is wide and getting progressively wider. Americans are more to blame for this than Japanese, according to Frank Gibney, Tokyo-based executive vice president of Encyclopaedia Britannica. In the October issue of Foreign Affairs, Gibney regrets that "behind the textiles and transistors, the American, so relatively sophisticated about the changing situations of Britons, Italians or Russians, sees in the Japanese the same 25-year-old image which American soldiers originally brought back from the occupation days: smiling, polite little people...