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Baffled by the equal credibility of both witnesses, the investigators demand to see the wife. She appears in a heavy black veil, announces that she is the mother-in-law's daughter and the son-in-law's second wife. "For myself," she says, "I am she whom you believe me to be." In one of the many meanings he intends, Pirandello says that truth is in the eye of the beholder...
...long been the Arab world's loudest cham pion of women's rights. In 1956, when Tunisia won its independence, Bourguiba abolished polygamy, made it harder for men to get divorces, and gave women their first, real legal rights. He looked on approvingly as the Moslem veil began to vanish, and he has shown no objection to the new garb of girls who parade gracefully through the narrow streets of Tunis in brief, airy frocks. But one has to draw the line somewhere, and last week Bourguiba did-just below the knee-by banning the thigh-high miniskirt...
...through the streets of Chicago. In the heavily Catholic Gage Park neighborhood, an angry youth in a jeering mob yelled, "This is for you, nun!" and threw a brick at her. The missile struck Sister Angelica on the back of her head, opened a cut that soaked her black veil and white collar with blood. Unashamed, the crowd cheered...
Born. To Maria Schell, 40, Viennese movie star (End of Desire), and Veil Relin, 39, director of a Viennese avant-garde theater: their first child, a daughter; about a month ago in Munich. Her pressagent says they plan to marry as soon as possible...
...Javits, the battleground from now on will inevitably be in the big cities. Too often, he feels, the American view of politics is obscured by a gossamer veil of Jeffersonian romanticism carried over from a day when the idealized American was a frontier farmer...