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...have always contended that TIME must make Judaism out to be exotic. Hitherto that has precluded the highlighting of a Reform rabbi, who, after all, is usually beardless and unquaint-looking. You solved the problem beautifully, producing a turbaned Nelson Glueck. My compliments! Thanks, too, for showing him also in civvies...
...argue the Administration's case for a $60 million appropriation to get a U.S. supersonic jetliner program moving - and he needed some help. What about placing some orders, asked Halaby, even though the final design of the U.S. plane has not been decided on. U.S. airlines, though hitherto eager to order the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic because it promised to be first, made a show of confidence in the eventual success of the U.S. program by ordering 29 planes...
...assistant, Mlle. Nicole Parichon, was cleaning the plaster off a mummy, she spotted a piece of papyrus that looked unusual. Other pieces matched it, and eventually a dozen pieces fitted together. They turned out to be part of a long, rolled-up scroll that contained 400 lines of a hitherto unknown play of Menander, a Greek playwright who died in 290 B.C. It is one of the oldest Greek manuscripts known, but the writing is almost as clear as fresh print...
Each year brings evidence that the lower orders of Britain have acquired another caste mark of the old upper crust. Now it is autobiographies, hitherto the prerogative of retired generals, statesmen, colonial officials and men of letters who are willing to design their own public monuments...
Early test results at week's end showed that 10% to 15% of the Congressmen had some breathing impairment. It would take time to find out how many of them had hitherto unsuspected emphysema. In any case, officials of the Alabama Tuberculosis Association and its affiliates felt sure that as a result of the demonstration, Congressmen would be more likely to blow hot than cold on appropriations for lung-disease research...