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...palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
...earlier works, though his palette was muted, the focus was as sharp as a photograph. Gradually, the brushwork loosened, until it seemed as if a veil had dropped between the artist and reality. His landscapes may be literal, but they are seen as if in a dream (see color), his people, almost always empty-eyed, seem to live in a trance. They are sleepwalkers, whose minds and bodies are a world apart. And for the most part, they are children, usually adolescent girls...
...Absolutely Serious." Behind the veil of quiet diplomacy, the President opened a second front-trying to talk sense to the Soviets. At U.S. request, India's Nehru passed the word along to Moscow that the U.S. was "absolutely serious" about preserving Laotian freedom. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson pursued Nikita Khrushchev to Novosibirsk, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Washington. They both conveyed Kennedy's personal message: the U.S. viewed Laos as a test of the Kremlin's ultimate intentions, and would not attempt to settle any other cold war issues...
...used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow now, and we don't get so many sailors any more." The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar...
Mason suspects that kaolinite and other "trainable" particles are carried up to 35,000 ft., where the temperature often falls to -60° F. There they gather a little ice, forming thin, veil-like cirrus clouds. When they fall through dry air, most of the ice evaporates, but tiny bits remain trapped in crevices. When these ice-seeded particles get mixed with a moderately cold cloud, they make it yield snow or rain. Mason argues that much of the earth's precipitation is wrung out of clouds by just such "trainable" earth-dust particles. Kaolinite and other kinds...