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Professor Richard Baxter of Harvard Law School, who has written interpretations of the legal aspects of the Geneva Protocol, writes that "the evidence is by no means conclusive with regard to anti-plant chemicals," but that the weight of opinion in international legal circles is that use of herbicides in war, such as the American spraying in Vietnam, is prohibited by the Protocol...
...setting is the study of an English country house, the home of Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), a successful mystery writer. Into the room comes Milo Tindle (Keith Baxter), a travel agent. Tindle has been having a surreptitious affair with Wyke's wife. After a swift courtesy drink has been poured, Wyke makes Tindle blink by saying, "I understand you want to marry my wife." "Well, yes," gulps Tindle, "with your permission, of course," and a duel to the death begins between...
...surprise. Among its bonuses, Sleuth is a consummate spoof of thrillers, as keen in satire as suspense. The evening moves from something like the erudite nonchalance of S.S. Van Dine to the venomous gaiety of the "get-the-guests" sequence in Virginia Woolf. In the key roles, Quayle and Baxter are lithe and lethal...
...wave of applause that greets her every tap dance, her every entrance, even her bad lines, points toward that self-congratulation. If Ruby can still tap her way into the hearts of the fans-it should be recalled that Miss Keeler was the ingenue to whom Warner Baxter said in 42nd Street, "You're going out there a youngster, but you're coming back a star!"-then perhaps there's still reason to believe that there is life after thirty...
...Baxter called yesterday's meeting to resolve this issue, at which the Committee also discussed a petition drive by John Scovell, a second-year Business School student and Army ROTC Battalion Commander: Scovell received 1620 signatures (20.4 per cent) favoring retention of ROTC out of 7929 students at the College, Law School, and Business School...