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Morocco's Ministry of Justice is working on the draft of a new divorce law that will strip Moroccan men of the right to shed their spouses simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times, and bring the law more nearly into accord with Western-type procedures. Polygamy, a delicate subject since the King himself has two wives, will probably be so ringed with further restrictions that it will become for all practical purposes impossible...
...others, and so I-think implies the notion of Thou-art. Science itself reveals this sense of ''inter-subjective reality" every time "the lonely experimenter, wherever he is, knows he has discovered truth as unquestionably a truth for everyman . . . Modernity has thus held to its own type of certitude, its science, its humanistic confidence in human thinking-in brief to its 'I-think'-until on its own empirical ground it sees its incomplete truth. What religion may say, and truly say, is that this inter-subjective reality is nothing other than its own eternal and unswerving...
...industry's inability to look beyond "the ruthless law of the [rating] decimal point." Said Cunningham: "As advertising men we must be interested in all TV, not only in our own programs. We want it to be a strong, well-rounded medium. A multiplication of the same type of show, such as the present wave of singers, quizzes and westerns, can only narrow the base of TV, restrict its power and its value to the people. Anybody who buys another western, unless it is a marked creative departure from the pattern, ought to turn in his grey flannel suit...
...Rock Island railroad removed the nation's first operative lightweight train, the Talgo-type Jet Rocket, from the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run, put it to carrying commuters on the short haul between Joliet and Chicago...
...king and court of Shakespeare's Elsinore, argues Author West, represent all governments, all men. Nobody has clean hands. Ophelia is usually presented on the stage as a convent-type sweetie who has a nervous breakdown; in fact she is just "a disreputable young woman," a docile pawn in her father's plot to match her with Eligible Bachelor Hamlet. "No line in the play suggests that she felt either passion or affection for him." Even the ghost of Hamlet's father is tainted, as Author West sees it: he is the voice of the past...