Word: finales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus with a cynic's lullaby closed the final chapter-just 24 years ago this month-of one of the most tempestuous custody battles ever fought. The baby was eleven-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, solemn-faced, button-cute heiress to a $4,000,000 trust fund, headlined in that Depression year as the "Poor Little Rich Girl." Mother was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, one of the most publicized Continental gadabouts of the day, who lost the fight for her daughter's custody-except for weekends (with Christmas and July tossed in)-to her sister-in-law, wealthy Art Patroness...
...crust, forming a V-bottomed trench which after many millions of years fills with sediment. Eventually the downward current in the mantle stops flowing. Since the mantle rock at its sides is heavier, it moves in, forcing upward the dragged-down crust and the sediments in the trough. Final result is that the former trench pokes above the sea, appearing as an arc of islands set with volcanoes, like Japan, or a curving shore of young mountains, like California...
Mecca to Arafat. On the eighth day came the final stage of the pilgrimage-the 15-mile walk to the valley of Arafat, where all hadjis must be present at the same time to listen to prayers recited on Mount Arafat. The temperature that day was well over 100°, and the old and weak were dropping everywhere. Tubs of water were available for dunking heat-exhaustion victims. "Even if they don't recover," said one veteran, "they are perfectly happy, because they have died on a hadj.'' The death rate for this year's pilgrimage...
...London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, Manhattan Dealer Julius Weitzner, and Leonard Koetser, a calm London dealer who had not even put in a bid until the price reached ?160,000. At the ?250,000 mark, only Agnew and Koetser were still slugging. Then, with Koet-ser's 15th and final nod, two minutes after the opening bid. Auctioneer Wilson knocked down the painting for ?275,000 ($770,000)-highest price ever recorded for a single painting at public auction...
...final Harvard sponsored social event for the opening week will be the mixer dance at the Harvard Union on Thursday evening. Since the music will be live (supplied by the notable George Graham Orchestra) an admission charge of 50 cents per person will gain entrance to this non-formal, refreshments-served dance. These mixers will otherwise be held on Friday evenings through the last one on July...