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¶ Near fabled Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet republic, Chairman Hakim Mamadiarov of the Karl Marx collective farm was denounced for living like an Oriental potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate...
After a hard day at the Foreign Office, Lord Home had an even harder evening in the theater, sitting there opening night "smiling," as one critic described it, "his bland Oriental smile." According to the columns, when his brother later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he...
Auctioneer Louis J. Marion of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries spent two days all over the house knocking down 680 lots of gilt "French Court" furniture, red cut-velvet curtains, gilded bronzes, chinoiserie and acres of oriental rugs.
Modern technology has obliterated the frontiers of disease. Thanks to jet planes, a louse brushed from the sleeve of a beggar in an Oriental bazaar may attach itself to a tourist who will land in San Francisco next day-already infected with typhus.
Harvard snagged five of 270 Guggenheims fellowship awards for 1962. Win of grants for scholarly and scientific research: Edmund I. Gordon, follow of the American Schools of Oriental Research, who will study the history of the ancient Middle East based on cuneiform tablets excavated at Hi-Amarna, Egypt; Robert W...