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...mother shall be put to death without mercy." On the other hand, the loss of some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk in tyme of ser-mone or prayers on Sonday...
Little Me is called Little Caesar by the showbusy set. Miming the seven suitors of Belle Poitrine, the Ail-American Showgirl, Sid Caesar is the most brilliantly versatile playboy of the Western world...
After two issues, however, it is by no means assured that the National Observer will succeed in its goals. The combination of unattractive layout, overpowering volume, bad writing, and a general lack of journalistic know-how seem ail too likely to repel newsstand browsers. And the National Observer can not count on the patronage of the intellectual upper class; members of the Harvard community, for example, will find upon inspection that very few articles in the first two numbers tell them anything...
...closest approximations of a free election in ail of Haiti's dictator ridden history, François Duvalier won the presidency in 1957 on his record as a selfless country doctor fighting disease among his country's poverty-stricken peasants. But after four years, Haiti's 3,750,000 Negroes are still no better off (annual per capita income: less than $100), and the Duvalier regime has turned into the traditional model of a dictatorship, gobbling up graft and relying on strongman methods to keep itself in power. All the while, Duvalier, who in the past four...
...Unruh went to U.S.C., working nights in the aircraft plants to support his growing family (they now have five children). On campus he developed an insatiable appetite for politics, dabbled in ultraliberal causes. "The Communists," he recalls, "rushed me like they were Sigma Chi and I was a future Ail-American...