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...year, but he can't touch capital, so where is the poor fellow to turn? Well, to marriage and to an heiress, of course. By the time one twin substitutes for another in the courtship-naturally falling in love with the lady-and Mamma is once again solvent, the reader has come to feel the spell of a slight-prose master whose writing suggests not only Jane Austen and Angela Thirkell but perhaps the Bobbsey Twins as well...
...Theater was started 15 years ago by Mack Seism, 36, a graduate in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma,who decided that the life of the stage was more interesting than cracking oil. Housed in an old warehouse, the Mummers have set some sort of record by being solvent from the start, especially since they produce Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett as well as surer things like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which closed a successful run last week. "A successful resident theater," says the Ford Foundation, "appears to be dependent upon a single driving, talented director...
Cattle & Collectors. But such leniency was more than Mali's President Modibo Keita could afford. Eager to create a sound, solvent state, he exercised his sovereignty in 1962 by raising Mali's cattle tax by 300% (to $1.20 a head), stubbornly insisted on collecting it. The Tuaregs saw no reason why they should obey. Blithely, they began smuggling their cattle into Niger and Upper Volta. When Keita's tax collectors cracked down, the Tuaregs began shooting...
...Brown, a past member of Union's faculty: "You have to be a theologian, administrator, educator, pastor and fund raiser." Bennett will probably find the job of bankroller the hardest. Unaffiliated with any church or university, Union needs over $1,000 a day from outside donations to stay solvent...
...Craig dissolves the substances to be separated in one of the solvents; the solution is shaken with the other solvent to produce an emulsion (crudest example: oil and water). The substance that he wants to pick out will dissolve more in one component than in the other when they are all shaken up in the glass tubes. The emulsion causes rapid distribution of the substances between the solvents. After the solvents have separated, the C.C.D.'s electronic brain tells it to tilt and pour off the liquid from the top of each tube into the next tube. Repeated hundreds...