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Apparently Nevada is not the only place where a divorce may be obtained expeditiously. I have just received "An open letter to lawyers and interested persons of the U. S.," from an Attorney and Counselor at Law, of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, entitled "How to obtain a divorce fastly and at low cost." According to this "open letter," one of the grounds of divorce in the State of Campeche, Mexico, is mutual consent. "In mutual consent cases, both parties may appear before the Court by power of attorney, without coming here. ... In non consent cases, provision for service to a conciliatory...
Contact Glasses have two applications in ophthalmology; first, in the correction of defects of vision and, second, in examinations of the eye wherein they permit the physician to obtain a view of certain portions of the interior of the living eye-ball which could not otherwise be seen. In the first application they have been used almost exclusively to give useful vision to persons suffering from conical cornea, a disorder in which the front of the eye-ball takes the form of a cone. Such a defect renders the patient's vision practically useless and the trouble...
...dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly easy to obtain in Russia, popular fury could not thus be roused to national frenzy merely because the No. I Soviet meat man was supposed to have taken a bribe...
...election day in Bombay last week for three seats in the British-controlled Legislative Council of Bombay Presidency. Nationalists (Gandhites) are convinced that the only way to obtain a legislature that is "truly representative" is to boycott the present one. Early at the Town Hall polling place appeared 600 Hindu women in bright orange saris, grimly determined to keep their weak-kneed brethren from voting. More than 600 British police, many mounted, were ready for them. Events moved in a routine that has become traditional in such affairs...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...