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Monro's famous "wild parties and sexual intercourse" sentence brought vivid images to the mind of the News writer. His playful lead ("Sizzling sex parties--where the girls climb the walls right along with the ivy--are the current rage at Harvard") is followed by images of "Cliffies going "bed to bed" in the dorms, an unborn child fathered by "the whole damned football team of an Eastern college," and other similar incidents...
...Dark." Guiding P.G. & E. on its fast upward climb is its new president, Robert H. Gerdes, 59, a lean, shy lawyer whose voice sounds like Jimmy Stewart's. Gerdes joined P.G. & E. in 1929, worked mainly on legal and financial affairs before replacing Norman Sutherland as president last July (Sutherland died a few weeks later from cancer-TIME, Sept. 13). Though a native Californian, Gerdes has a utility man's notions about the profitability of bad weather. "We like it wet and dark," he says, "and the colder the better...
Both species are beetles whose larvae live in damp places and feed on snails. The adult females cannot fly. When they reach maturity, they wait patiently for dusk, then climb to a high spot and turn on their seductive light. Males flying overhead spot the beacon and drop down to pay court...
...after the President's assassination, denunciations of him became a very poor political pitch. Most of Mor rison's opponents tried to climb back off their limbs, but it was too late. When Louisiana Democrats went to the polls Dec. 7, they gave Morrison 299,702 votes, a whopping 140,000 plurality over the runner-up, Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner John J. Mc-Keithen...
...must concede full partnership to whites and Asians, and tells his own dominant Kikuyu tribe that they must work amiably with other tribes. The opposition KADU Party, which elected only 31 of the 130-member House of Representatives, is falling apart as more and more of its own Representatives climb on the Kenyatta bandwagon, lured by government jobs and patronage. As a result, Kenya will probably become a typically African one-party state, but probably not in so virulent a form as Ghana or Guinea. No one can ignore the difficulties ahead-the uneasiness of the remaining white settlers...