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...Taylor, a young housewife twisted in front of a three-way mirror, inspecting a cotton dress. "Just what I want," she said. "Smart, you know, but casual." Said a shopper in Los Angeles' May Co.: "This year I'm going to concentrate on shirts, cashmere sweaters and knit dresses." A determined huntress...
...have little patience with the slow-moving machinery of French justice. "What?" bellowed one indignant Casablanca policeman recently. "Arrest Frenchmen for killing these Moroccan pigs? They ought to be given the Legion of Honor." Seeing Nothing. Morocco's French-colonial vigilantes are largely concentrated in three small, tightly knit undercover groups: the White Hand, Agir (to act), and the more formally titled Organisation de Défense Anti-Terroriste. They meet in favorite bistros to discuss their plans and plots over glasses of pastis. Their earliest targets were Moors picked off in dark alleys, but in time they moved...
...Vagrants. Strangest of all the groups in the camps are the blatnye, the criminals, who take the best bunks, get the best food. "They belonged," wrote Dr. Scholmer, "to a tightly knit organization with rigid laws of its own which is to be found in every camp in Vorkuta. The organization is made up to a large extent of former besprizornye, the vagrant children who have been characteristic of the Soviet Union. I never once saw one so much as lay hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into...
...despite a closely-knit Communist student movement most students do not follow the Communists, no matter how revolutionary most try to sound. The questions really indicate sincere interest...
...these problems is a new Princeton undergraduate. No longer does he represent the eastern, upperclass graduates of private preparatory schools, but a broad, heterogeneous group drawn from the entire nation. Princeton's problem is fitting; this new type of student into a traditional club system in a small, closely-knit undergraduate community, whose most distinctive feature is its self-contained insularity...