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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further undergraduate support for continued Harvard membership in the NSA developed yesterday when Bakhtiyar Ali Khan '59. Secretary of the Harvard Islamic Society, announced his group's opposition to the Council's vote for withdrawal. The full text of Khan's statement may be found on page five...
...battle for and against the Constitution, confusion could hardly have been greater. Most of the men who overthrew the Fourth Republic advocated positive vote; they declared that it would show France's determination to keep Algeria French. However, Algeria is nowhere mentioned in the text, and General de Gaulle just said that the Moslems are Moslem--a rare example of politically meaningful tautology...
Cross could tell from straightening out a piece of the tightly rolled leather that it must be a text from Deuteronomy. The bargaining went on for three sessions, and the price slowly descended to about $5,000. Then Cross and Saad hurried into the British Bank of the Middle East, just outside Jerusalem's ancient Damascus Gate, stepped nervously out again into the teeming, clanking tangle of Arabs and animals in Jericho Road with $5,000 in Jordanian pounds, and hurried back for the final transaction...
...Urbino Bible (see color pages) was meant to outdo in magnificence any previous manuscript. To comply with the duke's wishes, a noted Florentine bookseller commissioned one Ugo Comilli to copy the text on milk-white vellum of calf or sheepskin ; three artists whose names have been lost illuminated key pages. The finished product passed into the safekeeping of the Vatican Library in the mid-17th century, was last displayed in 1950 on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Library, and is currently kept in a massive oak cabinet in the Vatican's special storage...
Tips on Tape. To help train workers on new industrial processes, Dictaphone Corp. brought out a small, portable recorder and reproducing unit that gives instructions verbally rather than by complex text and diagrams. The trainee steps on a foot control to receive instructions, can turn the voice tape back to go over a step. Westinghouse found that the system cut learning time, increased productivity. Price...