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Professor usually specify "married" after they've lost one or two secretaries to the altar. The Government Department, for example, has lost two secretaries in a row to marriage; the male culprit in each case was a Harvard graduate student. Miss Hill reports an embittered professor's "order" for a secretary who was middle-aged, lived in Cambridge, and wore glasses...
Sixteen months of off-again on-again, frustrating negotiations came to an end last week as Boston's five dailies were struck and forced to shut down. The cause of the news blackout was the same culprit that struck New York papers for 114 days in 1962-63: the printers union. Not content merely to strike, some I.T.U. members appear to have hacked up 75 pages of type in the Boston Globe's composing room at a cost of $14,000 to the paper...
...What You Did has just got under way when a pair of youngsters wander out to a barn to visit a pony. Suddenly the door slams shut behind them. Outside, the bushes begin rustling. Can it be the wind? An unseen enemy? Actually, nothing at all is happening. The culprit is really Producer-Director William Castle, who seldom lets plausibility slow the pace of his grade-B shockers...
...Researchers have urged programs of regular exercise and have warned against smoking. Doctors have spelled out the dangers of excess weight; others have worried about weight fluctuation caused by repeated crash diets. More recently, physicians have concentrated on cholesterol and other fats. Now they have tracked down another apparent culprit...
...discovers that a government secretary is spying for Dr. No, he invites him self to her home. Other secret agents would merely have had her arrested, but. Bond grabs his situations as firmly as he grabs his women. By so staking his life, he succeeds in catching a second culprit...