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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...purely personal donation: their last remaining funds, 2,000 Congo francs, or about $40. Says Stringer Robins: "Dr. Becker put his hand on my shoulder and said kindly but firmly: 'No, please do not. We have liked having you here.' " while abroad should write for an Itinerary Form, which we must have back at least six weeks before departure. Write to: TIME Travel Service, 540 North Michigan Ave., Chicago...
Disk-Shaped Seals. After figuring in early legends, Dilmun takes slightly more tangible form in Sumerian writings as a city on an island three days' sail down the Persian Gulf. Merchants from Ur traded there, and clay-written records tell that they brought woolen goods, returning with cargoes of copper, ivory and gold. This suggests that Dilmun acted as middleman between Mesopotamia and the civilization of the Indus Valley in Pakistan. In both places have been found a few peculiar, disk-shaped stone seals. Since most Mesopotamian seals are cylindrical and Indus seals are square, archaeologists have long speculated...
...Englishwoman (Susan Brown) who is a careering editor as well, Don Juan finds his Doña Anna. He woos her with tender memory, and she answers him with Freud. She finds him "quite obviously immature." In her anthropocentric indifference to Heaven and Hell, Don Juan finds a 1960 form of gaiety that is full of desperation, loses his love for her because "if we don't love something greater than ourselves, we are incapable of loving one another...
LUNG DISEASE. In addition to an overall increase reported in the breathing disorder known as pulmonary emphysema, an apparently new form has been described in the last few years, said Manhattan's No-belman Dickinson W. Richards. Not yet given a name of its own, it is marked by an apparent wasting away of tissues, resulting in big holes in the lungs (usually the upper lobes). Victims are generally aged 30 to 40, and most have been heavy smokers, but no direct cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and the disease has been shown. Treatment: surgery to remove...
Eventually, the apparatus was available in the form of a dolphin (rampant), a lion (couchant), or embellished with the "blue magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...