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Before Director Ron Howard and his gargle of writers (Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman) arrange a satisfactorily romantic ending for their odd couple, they also manage to satirize everything from presidential politics to daytime television. They are a jostling, busily observant, funda mentally good-natured crew, and audiences are well advised to take a plunge on Splash. - By Richard Schickel...
Despite the impressive progress of the past few years, Dr. Guttmacher complains: "We're still in the horse-and-buggy stage of contraception." Dr. Rock and Dr. Goldzieher have a more funda mental objection to present methods. All, they say, attack the problem from the wrong direction, trying to negate nature during most of a woman's possible average of about 400 menstrual cycles. The ideal would...
...politician. An intimate of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, he quit his job as Minister of Information because he felt that his boss had assumed too much power. The danger of one-man rule is, in fact, one of Jeune Afrique's most persistent themes. "We believe that the funda mental role of the press is to prevent leaders from taking advantage of the people," says Ben Yahmed. "Africa's rulers have learned to fear...
Author Thorwald considers his sub ject in four tidy divisions. ∙ CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION, the funda mental problem of detection, began to be a science in 1879, when Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of anthropometry involving some eleven bodily measurements of each criminal. Fingerprinting, long a form of signature in the Orient, was introduced to Europe by Britain's William Herschel, and it had to compete with anthropometry until 1904, when two prisoners at Fort Leavenworth were found to have identi cal features, practically identical anthropometric measurements and identical names: Will West. Only their fingerprints were different, and within seven...
...official of the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee said yesterday that C.E.O.C. may challenge the $100,000 ceiling, which is based on a formula combining population and economic need. The Cambridge program, he claimed, is exceptionally structured to spend funda efficiency and serve the people of the city...