Word: existed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordan (pop. 1,600,000) gets modest Western aid ($45.5 million from the U.S. and $7,000,000 from Britain in 1961), has a yearly budget deficit of $100 million. Most of its development projects, except for the new East Ghor Canal scheme (TIME, Oct. 27) and Jerusalem highway, exist only on paper...
...Syrub Singh, the Indian, and his new white wife Charlotte, who had taken the Hindu faith, stood proudly in the dock last week in Durban's regional court. The prosecutor sought to prove that the Singhs' marriage did not exist since South Africa's Mixed Marriages Act rendered it automatically invalid. Thus, he argued, the "unmarried" couple, by living together, had violated the Immorality Act. The defense attorney retorted that the Singhs were indeed legally married since South Africa's legislation could hardly apply in Southern Rhodesia, where the wedding took place. As they awaited...
Expansion by Extension. All this is heady stuff for a university that did not even exist 35 years ago. As recently as 1959, it sold tickets for only five public events; this year the number is up to 117. Largely expanding by extension, U.C.L.A. now plans to double its libraries to 3,000,000 volumes. Now abuilding is a new college of fine arts, the first on any California campus. Well under way is a new theater-arts building, designed by Architect Charles Luckman, that will house two theaters...
...more modest way of dress for bishops and cardinals. "In every earthly hierarchy," he wrote, "there is little overt indication of differing rank. Among us, however, there still exist various modes of dress and pomposities which serve to affirm different positions: flaming colors, ermine, trains. People would be edified to see ecclesiastics dress simply...
...illusions of superiority by citing, among others, the case of the "Rehoboth bastards," in which marriage and inbreeding between 18th century Boers and Hottentots resulted, he says, in a new "race" of people who were more successful, in terms of time and place, than either progenitor strain. They still exist, healthy, hardworking and prolific farmers, in Southwest Africa. Naturally enough, the apartheid-minded South Africans call them "colored...