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...check in seven times a day, but otherwise was free to enjoy the city. He was doing just that on early Saturday morning, July 18, in the company of two attractive, well-educated young women he had met at a party. At 5:30 they stopped at the Bini-Bon Restaurant near the halfway house; it is a threadbare bohemian place, open 24 hours. Behind the counter was Richard Adan, 22, an aspiring actor and playwright who worked the graveyard shift in the café, which is owned by his father-in-law Henry Howard. Adan took the "toughest duty...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) dates back to 1938, when Italian Psychiatrists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, searching for a treatment for schizophrenia, used electricity to induce convulsions in a disturbed patient. Afterward, his condition improved. In the ensuing years, ECT became a common treatment for severe psychotic illnesses, both in Europe...
...join Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the heads of state and Foreign Ministers of the six other nations attending the conference. The Philippine capital had a bright, brushed-and-combed look for his arrival: most of the potholes on main avenues had been filled; the pimps, prostitutes and "bini boys" (homosexuals) had been hustled out of sight; Malacañang Palace had been refurbished; and the aging Manila Hotel, where the delegations are holed up, got its first fumigation in memory...
...difficult and an exciting task, for the Philippine Republic is a tough, bustling, colorful and potentially great nation. It consists of some 7,000 islands-a few smoking volcanoes, many somnolent with heat and sleeping sickness. Its 32 million citizens range from headhunters in northern Luzon to transvestite Manila bini boys, but the bulk of them are hungry, hard-scrabbling peasants who live in the barrios of the towns and cities. Some scavenge metal from the firing ranges of U.S. bases; others cap bottles of San Miguel beer in the big stone brewery near Manila Harbor. Beneath the stately palms...
...with a handsome sailor in the closing scenes of Divorce-Italian Style led to her being cast in the sequel, Seduced and Abandoned. Rosanna Schiaffino, 25, whose Lollobridgework went from a small part in La Notte Bravo, to The Victors and The Long Ships, is married to Producer Alfredo Bini. He will have to produce a lot to finance Rosanna. Says she: "I am a very expensive girl. My husband will have to give me a houseful of servants if he wants a hot dinner and clean clothes now and then...