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...Japanese film Street of Shame, reaches toward the superb level of its predecessor Rashomon. Dealing with the highly controversial issue of legalized prostitution, it does not bypass cliches ("Does an unnecessary business last so long?"), nor does it resist the opportunity to moralize. Nevertheless cliches and moralizing inherently attach themselves to the problem, which Street of Shame approaches warily and with artistic detachment...
...riots at rail terminals with tear gas and clubs, arrested union members on sight, including Vallejo and all his top lieutenants. The government charged that Vallejo is a Communist (he claims to have quit the party in 1946) and had plotted the strike with the second secretary and military attaché of the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. The government booted the two Russians out of the country...
State Department authorities attach so much importance to the way in which Soviet leaders deal with the Mikoyan mission that they expect to delay sending a new note to the Soviets about an East-West conference until after they get reports on what happens at the party congress...
...over the Senior Class Marshal election is one that deserves considerable thought during the coming months. Since the advent of the House system in the early 1930's, College-wide elections have become increasingly anachronistic. With Harvard broken down into small, 400-man compartments it is very difficult to attach much more significance to a class election than one would to a contest to see which undergraduate has managed to get his name before the most students during his four years at Harvard...
Prodded by the Soviet Union's dramatic Sputnik success last year, the Eisenhower Administration decided to push a program of appointing top U.S. scientists to serve as science attachés in major U.S. embassies overseas. Last week the program finally got into orbit. Named by the State Department as the U.S.'s first batch of science attachés were seven scientists, each eminent in his field and each fluent in the language of the country where he will serve his two-year term. The seven and their posts...