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...teacher, and the debutante is a 16-year-old pupil of his, seven months pregnant by him. It is virtually impossible to get this fact and More's marriage proposal across to the girl's brain-drained upper-class parents. Mother (Patricia Routledge) has her dress on backward so that it can be seen better when she is dancing, and her hair seems to be on backward too. When Father (Bayliss) grasps the bad news, he trots to the phone and demands a tuition refund, refusing to enter his daughter in the school's maternity wing...
...young couple hurry along the deserted waterfront alley. Then, with a quick backward glance, they disappear through an old wooden door innocently labeled International Exports, Ltd. Inside sits the late-working receptionist known as Annabelle Luck. "We need a safe house," whispers the man. "Are you sure you haven't been followed?" Annabelle whispers back. "Stand over by the bookcase...
...break up the vast estates of the principalia, the Filipino elite; peasants today still pay up to 30% of their crop to absentee landlords, and the rest often goes to local loan sharks. By granting free tariffs to Philippine producers of sugar, lumber and hemp, the U.S. reinforced a backward primary-product economy; today, a major irritant between Washington and Manila is the Laurel-Langley Trade Agreement of 1956, which perpetuates that error. Still, when the date came for Philippine independence, the U.S. kept its word. On July 4, 1946, for better or worse, the philophilic strains of the Filipino...
...both improve far more than they would under normal schooling conditions. So at least has been the experience of Manhattan's antipoverty Mobilization for Youth program, which three years ago set up a "homework helpers" project that paired high school students as after-hours reading tutors with academically backward grade-school children, most of them Negroes and Puerto Ricans from the city's depressed Lower East Side. Since top students could not always be found as "role models" who might inspire the younger children to greater industry, M.F.Y. was forced to take on a number of tutors...
Singleterry fell forward, the Crusader's momentum carried him and the punter's leg backward, and the bone snapped. "It seemed like he was deliberately coming after me," Singleterry said later...