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...short, most sex education tries to perpetuate by enlightened sweet reasonableness the same morality that was once enforceable by social or religious canon and parental fiat. It does not necessarily work. Family Life Professor Lester Allen Kirkendall of Oregon State, who has been working on sex education since 1928, decries the tendency of parents to look on sex education as "disaster insurance." The old threats of pregnancy, venereal disease and community disapproval no longer carry the weight they once did, according to Kirkendall. "Many parents still think we can revitalize these threats," he says, "but the kids...
...explore the possibility of initiating a new U.N. peace-keeping action, the President flew to Canada where, after a desultory tour of Expo 67, he spent two hours with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1957 for his post-Suez efforts to restore order to the Middle East. Johnson also conferred in Washington with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. The President kept Eban cooling his heels for a full day in punishment for the fact that the Israelis had imprudently announced his plan to meet Johnson before clearing it with the White House...
President Lyndon Johnson went to Canada to talk over the situation with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, after appearing on nationwide TV to warn that the situation was potentially disastrous. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a visit to Washington because of the crisis, but Foreign Minister George Brown flew off to Moscow to talk it over with the Russians ("What could he possibly do?" sarcastically asked London's Labor-leaning Daily Mirror). The French Cabinet, after an all-day session with Charles de Gaulle, decided that it might be a good idea if all four major powers pitched...
...pleasure is mutual. New York Times Critic Walter Kerr wrote: "He deserves a Tony, if not the Nobel, for expertise in a special nose-bashing category." Richard Lester, who directed the Beatles' movies and three of Crawford's, last year called him "England's answer to Jack Lemmon." Last week Lester corrected himself, saying that "Michael is no one but himself now, and I think he'll be one of the great, great stars." Veteran British Actor Peter Bull, who is featured with him in Black Comedy, says: "There is no limit to what...
Eventually, Crawford would like to try straight drama again. "But I enjoy working," he says, "more than starving." (He has one child, a second on the way.) Within ten years he fancies himself out of acting and into directing and producing. Dick Lester already considers Crawford such a natural that he let him direct his own scenes in A Funny Thing. But reading the papers last week, Michael fretted about a possible delay in his plans. "If I go home," he mused, "I may be shipped off to Israel. If I stay here, I'd go to Viet...