Word: marlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unknown Theodore. Professor Smith had been browsing through the libraries of the 5th century monastery of Mar Saba in the wilderness a dozen miles southeast of Jerusalem when he came upon a 2½-page text written into the back of a book published in 1646. It was not uncommon, in times when paper was scarce, for monks to copy into contemporary volumes items of interest they might find in the odd pages of ancient, disintegrated books that floated around the library before being thrown out or used as bindings. Smith checked the handwriting with nine of the world...
...through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...smitten with the well-bred Spanish beauty of Beatriz María Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Patiño fortune on the reasonably sound ground that, as a Bolivian, Patiño is subject to the Bolivian law that foreign divorces are legal only when the nation in which the marriage was performed (in this case, divorceless Spain) permits divorce...
...bishops last week moved even more deeply into their continuing church v. state battle, at the same time found themselves at odds with the conscience and conviction of many a good Catholic. Just before the recent elections, Puerto Rico's three bishops denounced Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party for its "anti-Catholic and antiChristian" toleration of birth control, sterilization and common-law marriage (TIME. Oct. 31), warned that Catholics who voted for the P.D.P. would "inevitably" be guilty of sin. Nevertheless, Muñoz won an overwhelming victory at the polls...
...Boathouse. For Acoustica's gangling Chairman Robert L. Rod, 40, the Atlas contract is the climax of five years of building up his ultrasonics business from a shop in a Long Island boathouse to a leading position in ultra-high sound systems (TIME, Mar...