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...receiving a sugar factory, a bridge, a housing project and a new vocational-training school. On a 148,000-acre tract 20 miles from the site of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre plots of land to 20 landless fellahin. The land transfer was particularly symbolic to Iraqis: it marked the first time the area has been irrigated since Mongol hordes wrecked their elaborate irrigation systems 700 years ago. Gaunt, copper-skinned E'Elawi Aboud was one of the first to receive his deed. "My father, my father's father...
...weeks ago), falls somewhere between Lardera and Manzu. He has long since left his cubist period behind, and his work has become much more lyrical and expressive. Since his early days, Lipchitz has liked to shape his ideas in wax or clay, then cast them in bronze or transfer them into stone by hiring a stonecutter to do all the work except the finishing touches. His latest work, on exhibition last week at Fine Arts Associates, is a series of 33 small (7¶ in. to 18¶ in.) statuettes formed in wax and later cast in bronze. Lipchitz calls...
...around the world last week (except in the unlit third of it ruled by the Communists) could be seen the evidence of dying colonialism and the gestation of new kinds of government. In some cases, the transfer of authority was grudging; in others, power was being grabbed before responsibility was proved. But a surprising part of the changeover was an orderly transfer of sovereignty. One by one they made the headlines-from Ghana on West Africa's Gold Coast to Singapore in the Far East, to the West Indies federation in the Caribbean...
Older residents were more sorrowful than resentful. One woman reminisced about her 44 years as the University's tenant, and stated that Harvard was an "ideal" landlord. Her boarding house used to house students until complaints about the DeWolfe St. "rathouses" caused the transfer to the dormitories. Now, students will live on DeWolfe again, and she thinks this will force her to leave Cambridge...
...evaluation of the strontium 90 danger. Too much work is still to be done. We do not know how much gets down to earth or how long that takes. We do not know how much then enters the human body, or at what rate, or what the mechanism of transfer from food to animals and humans is. I do not believe that strontium 90 will be permanently harmful at its present level, but if experimental explosions continue at the present rate, there will come a time when the human body will be seriously harmed. It will then be too late...