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...become financially easier. Women have more education and can more readily find jobs. They are more affluent, so they can afford to flee by plane or in the family's second car. They also have the Pill-and the prospect of easier divorce. "Years ago," Investigator Gold-fader sums up, "a girl could run only to Mama, who would have told her to go home. Now, chances are that not even Mama's home...
...many more determined female deserters. Nina, for example, was a 36 year-old Massachusetts wife with a maid, two cars, a country-club membership and a corporate-executive husband who drank too many martinis and made too many passes at other men's wives. Committing what Gold fader calls "social suicide," she fled to the West Coast and took on the identity of a friend. There she got a job in advertising and acquired a new Social Security number using her friend's name. Despite her elaborate precautions, she was located through her real birth date, which...
With a federal grant, the University of Michigan's English Professor Daniel Fader has devised a special English course for Maxey boys. Arguing that "no hardbound text was ever thrust into a boy's hip pocket," he has thrown out such books, replaced them with paperbacks ranging from James Bond to Erich Fromm. When he first arrives at the school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep...
...crown colony bustle with color, the interiors are ingratiatingly ratty. Literarily, the picture is a mad chow mein of Chinese-laundry English, doused with a sickly marmalade of sentiment and soy-sauced now and then by a daffy line (prostitute announcing her baby's name: "Weenston. Hees fader velly importan' man"). Dramatically, it is just one long touristic stagger through the better bars and restaurants of Hong Kong...