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...TORIES LOST: We lost [October 1974] because we did not appear to stand firmly for anything distinctive and positive. Sneering at "middleclass values" is to insult the working class no less than the bourgeois. Do British workers have no feeling for freedom, for order, for the education of their children, for the right to work without disruption by political militants? Of course they do, and if they are no more than cash-grabbing anarchists, then we must try to show them the way back to sanity...
What is that naked lady doing in a fashion show? Juliet Prowse, 38, in the buff will be the highlight of this year's Fashion Awards, to be aired on March 19 on ABC. It is not intended to be an insult to the winners, who include Designers Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, but simply a moment in the history of fashion. "It's a musical montage-type thing, starting with a naked Eve and back full circle to almost naked in a string bikini," explains Juliet. There is apparently no danger of a network furor...
...Adding insult to injury. Princeton's second leading scorer with 18 points was Barnes Hauptfuhrer, in the 1948 Harvard basketball season, the Crimson's leading scorer was one George Hauptfuhrer, who is new a member of Harvard's Sports Hall of Fame...
Graveyard Mirth. On a trumped-up charge that some sportive local bloods have attempted to rape her, Silia demands that Leone issue a dueling challenge to one of them, a Marquis Miglioriti. The code requires that a husband avenge an insult to his wife's honor, so Leone accedes and presses Guido, who also happens to be his good friend, into serving as his second. Guido issues an unconditional challenge, only too slyly aware that the marquis is both a crack pistol shot and a master swordsman. But Leone makes the final move on the chessboard of fate...
...first offender had been the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George Scratchley Brown, with his remarks about Israeli and Jewish influence that sounded anti-Semitic (TIME, Nov. 25). This time it was Agriculture Secretary Earl Lauer Butz, who in ten ill-chosen words managed to insult both Italians and Catholics everywhere. At a breakfast meeting with newsmen, Butz set forth his belief that population control would be necessary to meet the rising demand for food by the world's hungry. A reporter reminded Butz that Pope Paul VI had opposed population control in an audience with...