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...result of a disordered state of the digestive organs . . . Egad, it is a traveling disease . . If it be seated in an unimportant part, in the name of God let it go there!" Abernethy promptly slapped an injunction on the Lancet, and the magazine won a court decision that henceforth medical lectures were to be regarded as public property...
...commission sent out thousands of questionnaires in Urdu, English and Bengali, last week reported six to one for reform. Henceforth, it recommended, Pakistani males should get permission for second marriages from special new courts of matrimony; they should prove themselves able to support two families; they should not marry again "merely ... to marry a prettier or younger woman." The commission added that child marriages and the sale of brides should be outlawed, and that women and men should have equal rights of divorce. As of now, Pakistanis can divorce their wives in Islamic fashion by saying "I divorce thee" three...
...continually failed to recognize even the brightest English majors, seldom entertained his colleagues, seemed to have an ingrained aversion to lunch at the faculty club. But for all his crotchets, he commanded his full measure of respect, and on his retirement the university paid him an unintentional compliment. Henceforth, it announced-with no Malone around to make it worthwhile-Old English will be dropped as a requirement for a Ph.D. in English literature...
...firm listed on the exchange, thus picked up the listing with no trouble. In other cases companies have sold out everything but the listing, then gone into a different field under a new name. Last week the exchange's Board of Governors bolted this back door. Henceforth, said President Keith Funston, "the Stock Exchange will refuse to list additional stock if the surviving company does not meet current initial listing standards...
...walked out of the Assembly, refusing to retract, 65 Deputies followed him. Said Menderes, as the reduced Assembly passed his bill (281 to 2): "Mark you, tomorrow they will be back." But the opposition did not return next day, and their spokesman announced that henceforth they would boycott the National Assembly. Thus, thin-skinned Adnan Menderes will be free of niggling criticism not only in public meetings but in the Grand National Assembly itself. Probably no one but Adnan Menderes found that prospect reassuring...