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...victims. He dodged jail by joining the army, but the French army, which takes all kinds, shortly dismissed him as "asocial and undesirable." So his parents decided to buy him a couple of bars to run. When the bars failed, they bought him a book shop, hoping that the contagion of handling books might improve his mind. But by that time Georges, who had taken to wearing a shoulder holster and revolver, had already carved out another life on his own. Last week he was one of the most talked-about young men in the country...
Capitulation. The contagion of defiance spread from below ground to the surface. Passengers refused to board a London bus because it was "revoltingly grubby." The bus was promptly cleaned. Newspapers cheered on the mutineers. Cried the Sunday Graphic: "The time has come to insist on getting what you have paid for. In every place where the service is bad or inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss...
Monarchist Deputy Angelo Rubino warned that closing the brothels means "free prostitution, which means nothing less than free contagion." Cried one legislator: "We Italians are an exuberant people with deep sexual needs." (Snorted Senator Merlin scornfully: "Men are men.") But many Italians, aware that their nation is the last one in Europe where prostitution is legal, are glad to see it finished. Said one: "What has been going on here is that houses have been selling the bodies of women, and the government has been taking a percentage of the sale." One young Roman was more cynical. "Now that...
...main political points: 1) President Eisenhower is, like President Buchanan, "a tired and amiable man with tired policies [who spreads] the contagion of his own confusion"; 2) the Administration has "dulled" the nation as to the U.S.S.R.'s strengths and the U.S.'s weaknesses with "sugarcoated half-truths"; and 3) the U.S. has developed a way of life in which truck drivers, bricklayers and factory workers are often better paid than professors, in which "an Elvis Presley makes more than the President...
...restriction on visitors to these patients, however, and non-patients have been coming in and out for several days. If these patients have Asian flu, there is a strong possibility that their visitors may also get the disease, for the illness has a very high degree of contagion...