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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those families where polygamy is still practiced-particularly among the rich-the women often take a sophisticated view. In Manhattan, a slim, exquisitely gowned wife of an Eastern diplomat argued that taking a second wife was no different from the Western practice of taking a mistress. "The problem of the man who wants more than one woman is as old as humanity. We don't think the Western nations have found a really better solution...
...Person of the Emperor. "This is the day," the little Emperor told his subjects soon afterward, "of fulfillment of the gracious pledge so often reiterated by us, that our beloved people are to share in the responsibility of the public affairs of our government." Facing him in the parliamentary chamber were 210 representatives of the people, victors in the first election ever held in Ethiopia's 3,000-year history of autocratic rule...
Several of the Yugoslavs who played host to Experimenters were engineers. They had taken in an American primarily to improve their English, and had little concept of the aims of the Experiment, Lorenz said. It is often the case that American Experimenters are faced with the problem of explaining the Experiment itself as well as explaining America to their foreign hosts...
Captain Jim Shue said the fate of the team in this season's games has rested with the halfback line. Team success has fluctuated markedly with the up and down quality of halfback play, sometimes superb, but too often very bad. Shue said he considers halfbacks "the key to success in soccer, because they're both the defensive and offensive machine of the team...
...intellectually competent person with an interest in the subject can attend these lctures. Graduate students and professors from Princeton University often attend and, indeed are welcomed by the Institute. It is obvious, therefore, that the Institute's greatness and unique opportunity for learning is carried out to a far greater extent in the individual thinking of the members and their spontaneous intercommunication of ideas, often over the dinner table or in the office, with another member or members...