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...months, often unable even to notify relatives or employers that they are leaving. South African police instituted the system in 1954, but its workings were not generally known, even in South Africa, until 33-year-old Johannesburg Lawyer Joel Carlson started a series of habeas corpus actions fortnight...
Weightier commentators see the status war as containing grave national dangers. Fortnight ago London's Economist pleaded with upper-crust Tories to stop grumbling that workers "are getting above their station." Instead, "the modern Conservative should be one who looks up at the television aerials sprouting above the working-class homes of England, who looks down on the housewives' tight slacks on the back of motorcycles . . . and who sees great poetry in them. For this is what the deproletarianisation of British society means...
Thunder-throated Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 57, who entered a Manhattan hospital last fortnight for what her physician called "a general checkup," learned what ailed her. Diagnosis: four broken ribs, cracked in a household fall and easily mended...
...Hoyt Wilhelm is better than he has ever been before-and especially deadly against the Yankees. Since he went over to the American League in 1957, Wilhelm has allowed the Yankees just four earned runs in 59½ innings, shut them out three times- once with a no-hitter, fortnight ago with just one hit. Wilhelm's knuckler is different from most. He actually throws it from the fingertips of his middle and index fingers, keeps the nails on those fingers cut short for a better grip. Out of high school in the North Carolina mill town of Cornelius...
...that the barbers and bakers were fair game for tipsters and touters. When rumors went around that the Italo-Suisse company planned to build a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland, its shares zipped from $138 to $229 in a few days. Last week they worried off to $176. Last fortnight the most aggressive tipster service. I.F.A.S.. rode up the stock of Motor Colombus by 10% in a single day simply by reporting-with no fact or explanation-that it would jump sensationally. Last week the stock lost half its 10% gain, and at least one other hard-touted stock...