Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khin San, 18, was beautiful and beloved by the prosperous young trader Aung Thein of Pegu. Ma Khin Than, 21, her sister, was beautiful but blind. If San were married, mused her widowed father U Po Sein, what then would become of Than? In Buddhist Burma, where polygamy is legal (although wives are usually taken one at a time), these things are more readily solved than elsewhere. Sein had a talk with Thein; Than had a talk with San. Last week, in a bridal ceremony during which, clad in a pink sarong, he sat on a carpet with his betrothed...
...unarmed Catalina flying boat emblazoned with the three gold crowns of the Swedish royal air force lumbered above the Baltic early one morning this week in search of a sister plane that had been missing for four days. Cruising east, some 60 miles off the coast of Estonia and no miles from the Swedish coast, the defenseless Catalina was ambushed.* Two Russian MIG-15 jets bansheed down and made seven passes at the Catalina, one of them blasting away with its 20-mm. cannon. Hit several times, the Swedish plane got off a message to its home base...
...Babies who appear lifeless at birth because their mothers have been heavily dosed with morphine and sister drugs during labor may now be saved by another related drug (n-allyl-normorphine). Philadelphia's Dr. James E. Eckenhoff explained that despite the close chemical kinship, it is an antagonist to morphine and a quick antidote...
...Queens have a big advantage over the United States. Their labor costs are 75% lower, and they can shuttle back & forth on a weekly schedule, with scarcely an idle day. The United States, on 4½-day runs (leaving Manhattan about every two weeks), will have no sister ship to team up with; the America can't keep as fast a schedule. On top of this, all liners are waging a losing battle against the airlines. Five years ago, only 30% of transatlantic travel was by air. This year it will reach about 40%, and airlines talk confidently...
...back rooms at London's Tate gallery are sometimes ignored by art lovers, but those who took the trouble to visit one of them last week found the trip well worth the effort. On display there was the work of Gwen John, elder sister of famed Painter Augustus John, and an artist almost unknown before her death in 1939. Even six years ago, when a memorial show of her work was held in London, the critical reaction was guarded. This time the critics took a second look. Wrote John Russell in the Sunday Times: "The judgment of history . . . will...