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Despite the Communists' rejection of "bourgeois morality'' in the early revolutionary days, when divorces could be had for the asking, marital laws in present-day Russia are at least as strict as in most Western countries, and divorce requires lengthy court action. In answer to a recent newspaper questionnaire, many young Russians said that they wanted divorce made easier, asked that divorce cases be handled not by the regular judiciary but by the recently established "comrades' courts," composed of ordinary citizens-so far used mostly to deal with juvenile delinquency and lighter cases of "antisocial behavior...
Though it was cold, the hunters clung there from year to year. During the next two thousand years it grew much colder and damper--a sub-artic world like the present-day tundras of northern Europe. In this severer climate, new species of plants and animals thrived, while others which previously had flourished declined. And the Stone Age hunters, no longer able to stand the winter, went south each fall with the migrating herds of reindeer, to return again in the spring to their favorite camping spot beneath the rocky shelter...
...returned to Moscow, where he took charge of the American desk of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. A tall Ukrainian with receding, slightly greying hair, Dobrynin, 42, will be the first Soviet envoy to the U.S. who was born after the Russian revolution; in the youthful climate of present-day Washington, he should fit in well as a liudi novykh granits - or Soviet-style New Frontiersman...
...Unilever's present-day success lies in its management's skill in knowing when to go ahead-and when to pull back. In Europe they are driving forward, particularly with frozen foods; but in Africa, they are dealing delicately with threats from the new nations to nationalize chunks of the highly profitable United Africa Co. (TIME, May 26). Says Co-Chairman Cole philosophically: "If they want things in their own hands, you help them do it. Then you find something else to do yourself...
...inadequate to print it in black and white when its values so often depended on its colors. The result of this longstanding color program has been a week-by-week history of art, past and present, that is unmatched anywhere, in any magazine. The earliest crude beauty of Sumerian sculpture, the high glories of Renaissance painting, the colored infernos of present-day abstractionists have all been seen in TIME. This week, for example, while most U.S. newspapers are content to print the list of the top prizewinners at the Carnegie International of Pittsburgh, and a few to show the prizes...