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Birabeau (Laurie Main), who is an inanely unsuspecting cuckold. All the key figures converge on a kind of maison d'amour run by the lecherous Mme. Spritzer (Kathleen Freeman). There they are beset by an 1890 version of the Keystone Kops who have a devil of a time trying to fathom the traffic flow...
Argan is also beset by his wife Beline (Stacia Zabusky), who wants to send Argan's daughters into a convent and collect their half of his money when he dies...
...December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal amount. With warehouses still bulging with surplus sugar, prices are expected to be depressed for months, a fact that may make housewives smile but is of no solace to the still beset U.S. sugar grower...
...when more and more people appear either beset by total despair for the future or have hope only in the supernatural, Senator Humphrey seemed to say that we, mankind, hold the hope for the future by working our hardest and never giving up the fight for a better life...
...soccer season, disappointing although not in any fashion a disappointment, proved a number of things. Primarily, it proved that Coach George Ford may, at last, feel completely comfortable at the helm. The problems that have beset that man in the past seasons are too numerous to delineate. But the period of adjustment has apparently ended, and it should not be very long before Harvard enjoys the national rankings it held in the early '70s. They almost got there this year...