Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court to consider their verdict-which can hardly be anything but guilty. Prosecutor Hausner has made it clear that he will then ask for the death penalty. Eichmann can appeal his case to the Israeli Supreme Court and, failing there, can ask clemency of Israel's President Isaac...
...London's National Gallery at cost-the $392,000 that he had paid for it. Last week. Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd announced that the National Gallery had raised the money (?40,000 from the treasury. ?100,000 from a foundation established by Chain Store Tycoon Isaac Wolfson), would buy the painting and display it permanently...
Invented by a seven-man committee, including Conservative M. P. Isaac James Pitman (grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac Pitman), the all-lower-case new alphabet is longer than the old one. While eliminating q and x, it retains all other conventional letters and adds 19 new sound symbols (e.g., ae in the first line of the sample above). In theory, this reduces some 2,000 letter sounds in the regular alphabet to a piano-sized 88. Using the new system, a few retarded readers have already been rapidly cured. But the obvious problem is what happens later, when...
...dimensions. The split was papered over at the meeting of all the world's 81 Communist parties in Moscow last winter. Last week there was new evidence that the quarrel between the partners is becoming increasingly acrimonious. Writing in the London Sunday Times, Polish-born Kremlinologist Isaac Deutscher revealed an astonishingly bitter, point-by-point indictment of Peking policy "just sent out from Khrushchev's offices in Moscow to the headquarters o-f several foreign Communist parties." Among Moscow's complaints...
Last week Maine's Governor John H. Reed signed a bill that made his state the first to adopt the Durham Rule. Ironically, pioneer New England Psychiatrist Isaac Ray, while living in Maine, proposed an almost identical rule in 1838-five years before the House of Lords laid down the vexed M'Naghten Rule. New Hampshire adopted Dr. Ray's rule in 1870. The Durham Rule is the Ray Rule in up-to-date language...