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...TIME put a high premium on range and diversity in coverage of the news - from political maneuvers in THE NATION through the bright (and dim) lights of SHOW BUSINESS and the discoveries of MEDICINE to the ideas of THEATER and the thoughts in BOOKS. One way in which that concept is illustrated in this week's issue is the ten editorial color pages produced under circumstances as diverse as their subject matter...
Fuller's next "anticipatory" design was more practical. It was for a single-family house that carried Corbusier's "machine-for-living" concept farther than the Continental avant-garde had dared to think it. The rooms were hung from a central mast. This left free the ground, which could be landscaped to taste. The outer wall was of continuous glass, which enclosed both rooms and garden like a conservatory, with air conditioning from the central mast. The house was supposed to be independent of its location, and therefore easily movable if the family decided to change cities...
...fatherhood); and the rough go of being bisexual in our mores. I then, turned, for nine minutes, to some topics to bear in mind: the provincialism and brief history of our present customs; the organic nature of pleasure and its value as one criterion of vitality; the Thomist concept of sexual contact as a means of knowng another person; and the need to rethink the traditional family pattern in modern economic and urban conditions. I had prepared my notes carefully; I spoke my propositions tersely and, I felt, pretty well...
Bigamists & Bribes. The catch is in the key concept of jurisdiction. Unless the Juárez court also has jurisdiction over the other partner to the marriage, that partner can upset the divorce in his home state simply by bringing it to court. The practice until recently has been to arrange for two Mexican lawyers in Juárez, one with power of attorney for the absent spouse. The judge also incorporates into the divorce the Stateside agreement in which husband and wife settled property, alimony, and custody of children...
There is still a prevalent concept in U.S. law that only the state of "domicile"-where the parties really live-has power to end marriages. State courts may question whether Mexico has jurisdiction to grant a valid divorce to people with their return plane reservations in their pockets. Thus, many lawyers would agree with California's Judge Roger Alton Pfaff: "A Mexican divorce is really a fraud upon the state where the parties are domiciled...