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Egyptian suffragettes led by Doria Chafik, president of the Bent el-Nil Feminist Union, marched on Cairo's parliament house last week demanding votes for Egyptian women. Gaining the office of Senate President Aly Zaki el-Orabi Pasha, Madame Chafik found it empty, picked up the telephone, called Orabi Pasha, who was ill at his home. Said she: "I am speaking from your own office. A thousand women are outside demanding their political rights...
...nice things about coaching football at the United States Military Academy these days is that the prospects of losing a speedy halfback to the draft are nil. In addition, the Spartan life at West Point makes the problem of conditioning a relatively minor one, and exceptional schoolboy athletes who aspire to become officers and gentlemen often...
...acting is uniformly poor, Clift's contribution is virtually nil, and Douglas', though he gets off a few good ones for such a sleepy guy, is negligible. Altogether, the audience is easily as exultant at the finish of "The Big Lift" as the combined reactions of all the men who played the original performance...
...nil mate & Exact. Such huge retrospectives are trials by fire for an artist. If he has been repetitious, the exhibition bores the viewer: if he has followed fashion, it dates the artist. If he is too slick, it sickens; if too sour, it disgusts. But Hopper, 67, is none of these things. "My aim in painting," he once wrote, "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature...
...Conant explained, the importance of G.I. benefits in financing University students will be practically nil. "This is a consequence," he said, "of the change in price levels without any appreciable offsetting factors in the way of increased endowment or high returns on investments...