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...does seem hard to believe, but that's what happens in this picture. Based on a bestselling novel by Peter Gilman, it tells about a Hawaiian boy (James Darren) and a Chinese cutie (France Nuyen) who get biologically involved with a couple of rich haoles (white folks) named Howland and live (but not very long) to regret...
...participants were Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation; Deputy Police Commissioner John Howland, Traveler columnist Blake Ehrlich, Herald editorial writer Anson Smith; Elmer Foster, Mayor Collins' Citizens' Relations director; and Richard Banks, vice-president of the Boston NAACP and chairman of the Citizens' Committee on Police Practices...
...Comm. Howland defended the controversial "abroad in the night-time" law as necessary for crime prevention. "It is absurd for policemen to have to wait for an actual violation of the law before apprehending a suspicious person," he said, and reported suggestions that the law be extended to cover the daytime...
Panel members also disagreed on the procedures under which the Boston Police Review Board should hold its hearings. At present, the complainant is represented by a city attorney, while the accused officer has his own lawyer. Howland defended this arrangement with analogy to a criminal trial where the accuser may appear as a witness but the case is prosecuted by a public official...
...Ware actually don't have to go it alone all the way; at times Cheever makes the puzzling role of Steve Canfield (half charmer, half shyster) coherent, and Ninotchka's infatuation becomes reasonably credible; and as the three Russian stooges, Ivanov, Brankov and Bibinsky (Hail Bibinsky!), Ken Howland, John Kemp and Toby Walker have their moments. They are the real burlesque comedians, and in the scenes that have received some direction, they are very funny indeed. And, as the door-man of the ritzy hotel where capitalism (and Canfield) seduce Ninotchka, Geoffrey Cowan is the only believable Parisian...