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Maimonides' two greatest works are the Mishneh Torah (The Second Torah), completed in 1180, and the Moreh Nebuchim (Guide to the Perplexed), which he finished ten years later. The Mishneh Torah organized the entire body of Jewish Law into one code. In the commentary on the Mishneh is Maimonides' most widely known production-the 13 articles of faith, which most subsequent rabbinic opinion has held every Jew must accept: 1) God's existence, 2) His unity, 3) His incorporeality, 4) His timelessness, 5) His approachability through prayer, 6) the validity of prophecy, 7) the superiority of Moses...
...million copies of horror comics sold on U.S. and Canadian newsstands every month will soon have a new "Dior Look." Under the new voluntary Comic Book Code adopted by the industry to avoid state and community censorship (TIME, Nov. 8), heroines have been redrawn with less obvious curves and more obvious clothes. Comic Book Censor Charles F. Murphy, a former New York City magistrate, announced last week that his staff has already ordered revisions of 5,656 drawings, 25% involving the "reduction of feminine curves to more natural dimensions." Other changes: witchlike villains with wiry hair and fanglike teeth have...
...large females of certain deep-sea species dangle flashing lights to attract edible victims. The eyes of the much smaller male are sensitive to this flashing code, but instinct warns him away from his loved one's tooth-studded jaws. Instead, he attaches himself to her skin, and they become literally as one flesh. Her blood feeds him intravenously for the rest of their wedded life...
...last month, with the phony intelligence report secreted in a pack of cigarettes, Gardy headed for the Soviet sector of Berlin. When U.S. agents grabbed her, she fought, bit and gouged. Under questioning, she confessed that, under the code name of Stephania, she had been spying for the Russians from the day she stepped into Air Force intelligence headquarters 18 months before...
...Bunny are more popular today. In any event, Mickey is likely to be remembered, long after all the others are forgotten, for one decisive moment when he stood at the absolute center of human affairs. On June 6, 1944, the D-day of the Allied invasion of France, the code word for the entire Allied operation was "Mickey Mouse...