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Habitués of the Cantina de los Médicos swear that a man once given up for dead by Lima doctors was brought to the cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the...
Earlier in the evening, Miss Mead had discussed sex standards from a cultural viewpoint, with especial emphasis on the family arrangement. She said that in this country "we still have a basically puritanic attitude to sex, using it as an end to marriage, but never for its own sake."
Deliberately Dull? Journalist Ivor Brown thinks there is something to be said for the "odd appetite for knowledge in our times, an appetite which radio [through quiz shows] stimulates and feeds." With relief and some surprise he notes that radio, "instead of flattening out all our accents and idioms, and...
Except for a fine old stucco church on the weed-grown plaza, the sleepy rubber town of Cametá has only two noteworthy buildings: a nondescript, 10-ft.-square structure housing a brand-new well, and a little white municipal health center. Both are the work of a joint U.S...
No Facts. Most of all, say the docents, the public is "bewildered by the absence of facts" in such paintings. Comparatively naturalistic artists such as Cézanne and Van Gogh get a worshipfully warm reception, the museum says, and for Salvador Dali, whose surrealism depends on meticulous realism, "the...