Word: null
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruling that no true marriage had ever existed because of an essential flaw in the marital contract-was not easy to get. The Roman Catholic Church believes that marriages blessed in heaven cannot be dissolved on earth, and does not permit divorce. It will agree that some marriages were null and void from the beginning, but such cases are rare. In 1962, the diocesan and regional marital courts of the church around the world probably annulled fewer than 2,000 marriages. The Rota, Rome's final court of appeal for most annulment claims, handled only 124 cases, gave decrees...
...liver; in Detroit. A career sportsman, Dodge dispensed large chunks of the family fortune for souped-up speedboats and five wives (five children) who consumed more than $2 million in alimony and settlements. Sure to come: a battle royal over Dodge's will, which declares itself "null and void" if he is survived by his mother, now 93. Stakes: $2,000,000 in Dodge's personal funds, and eventually $65 million now in Mamma's name...
...offers its customers nothing more than hour after hour of phonograph records and a chance to dance where there is no room to breathe. Having such creatures as null Sagan, Porfirio Rubirosa and Yves Saint-Laurent under his electrified baton was excuse enough for the Pavlovian power Warfield felt, but like all pioneer artists, he was misunderstood in his time. Last week, for all his genius, he was fired on the implied charge that he was turning the Princesse into a laboratory for psy-chomusical research; he had become a power-crazed, prima donna player of the phonograph...
...E.D.T.) will present a program that sets a record of some sort. Having heard that the trout were biting in the Andes, Wide World packed its waders and took off for Patagonia. They drove two Jeeps and two trucks across the rising pampas to a null lake more than 200 miles from the nearest telephone...
...Installment. Down went Buffalo's teacher turnover and up went its school rating-Triple-A is the grade it gets from the state education department. In the past decade, 50 surrounding school districts have voted to be annexed by Buffalo, which now serves 1,550 students in a null area and is thus richer than ever. As a result, Buffalo in 1959 floated a $240,000 school bond issue and so improved Buffalo High School that last month the satisfied citizens voted overwhelmingly to hike the school tax by 20%. Worried about a U.S. "drift toward complacency and indifference...