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...that broad French farce means a farce about broads in France. Curtis, faced by a crisis when a new line of jets with extra thrust brings all his airchicks to earth at once, sweats over a role that only suavity could save. He inevitably brings to mind the rather blunt question that one might ask about a fortyish satyr-about-town: not how he does it, but why. As a colleague who drops by to ogle Curtis' girls, Jerry Lewis gives, for him, an unusually restrained performance. Parents who mistake Boeing Boeing for a routine Jerry Lewis kid comedy...
...down the high rate (1,100 cases a year) of unwed pregnancy among high school girls; just across the Potomac in Virginia, state law prohibits any public school sex instruction. Even among communities that think sex is a fit classroom subject, there is no unanimity of approach; some teach blunt physiology, with pictures; some tiptoe around the topic; some scare kids and even lie to them; a few regard sex as primarily a moral issue...
While his announcement of the new bomber helped to blunt congressional criticism, senior members of the Armed Services Committees were enraged that McNamara acted without consulting them. The committees undoubtedly will try to make McNamara's life difficult early in the new year, when he brings his fiscal 1967 defense budget to Capitol Hill. But, as in past fights over bombers and bases, Congress will find that it has little power to alter McNamara's decisions and even less inclination to deny him the $1.7 billion he will request for the new bomber...
...President's blunt message put the world on notice that after 20 years and $115 billion worth of U.S. aid dispensed, Washington henceforth would evaluate assistance programs not in terms of nations' needs alone but in the light of their economic policies and political attitudes as well...
...trying for years to get Congress to apply tight laws to foreign cruise ships that cater to Americans, claimed that if the Yarmouth Castle had flown the U.S. flag, she would never have left dock in Miami. A former skipper of the ship, Andrea Amatruda, 43, was even more blunt. Anyone booking passage on the Yarmouth Castle, he declared, was taking a "calculated risk." Unconcerned, passengers in Miami last week continued to troop aboard other equally ancient cruise ships for Nassau...