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In Jaccoud's absence on a business trip to Sweden, police searched his house and office, impounded two pistols, an exotic Moroccan dagger, Jaccoud's bicycle and clothing. The police laboratory reported that there were traces of blood and human liver on the dagger, and tiny bloodstains on...
The Sage of Sex, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. The best biography yet of Victorian Sexologist Havelock Ellis suggests that his studies of the abnormal may have arisen because his own sexual behavior was both immature and exotic.
Well in advance of next spring's summit palaver, who should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself...
The Floating World. Despite a growing infusion of Japanese culture since the war, in U.S. popular folklore Japan still exists largely as an exotic cliche bounded on one side by cherry blossoms and geishas, and on the other by hara-kiri and kamikaze. Readers who suspect that there is more...
As they pressed in on the President's Cadillac, a great cloud of dust arose, and the light of bonfires and of lanterns held high by hollow-eyed Hindu functionaries gave the scene an exotic glow. Tongues of humanity darted back and forth across the road in front of...