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Venus Examined assumes that a small, sleazy charitable foundation attempts to grab status in the world of tax-exempt altruism by sponsoring a sex research project. The researcher is bent on filming the orgasm in its natural habitat, using live volunteers and, among other teaching aids, a camera-equipped mechanical phallus. Experiment places its research project, supplied with similar equipment, in a crummy Ohio college. Faculty wives are among the volunteers. Neither Robert Kyle nor Patrick Catling is a hopelessly bad writer, sentence by sentence, although Catling wins the nomination for the silliest line of the year (so far): "Camilla...
...next act of this saddening spectacle will be played out on Monday when Senator Mansfield (D-Mont.) will again try to close the discussion. To get the open housing bill through, supporters will probably offer to exempt single-family homes. At present only owner-occupied homes of up to four units are exempt, the "Mrs. Murphy's boarding houses." On the civil rights bill, Dirksen himself has offered an amendment, suggesting that the states be allowed six months to act against the offenders. The federal government would interfere only after six months, if a state had failed to take action...
...were given 90 days to disengage. They obviously would prefer not to do so, and will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. Failing there, an avenue remains to the nation's many consolidation-minded publishers. The failing-newspaper bill, now languishing in a Senate subcommittee pigeonhole, would exempt from antitrust laws those papers combined along the Albuquerque Plan, provided that one of the pair was in serious financial trouble. The management of Tucson's dailies believe that their papers would qualify. So do scores of other publishers who are wondering this week what to do about...
...realm of political activity. The use of the word "political" to describe PBHA's purpose in the new constitution pleases members who are defensive about the House's lingering fruit-basket image, but it could also endanger PBHA's financial tie with the University and its tax-exempt status as a charitable and educational organization...
...afoul of the investment curbs by guaranteeing the debts of their foreign subsidiaries. Only by such underwriting can many a subsidiary borrow abroad-as the Administration still allows-on reasonable terms. Some moviemakers, pointing out that 54% of industry revenues last year came from abroad, hoped for exemption from capital controls to enable them to continue filming overseas. And the petroleum industry demanded a ruling that money spent on oil-well drilling is a "current transaction" and thus automatically exempt (like temporary financing of exports) from the stern program...