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Double Standard. To track down cases and contacts, Dr. Fiumara's investigators pose as social workers, saleswomen, poll takers or long-lost relatives. They arrange interviews in law offices, public libraries, department stores and cocktail lounges. "VD certainly shows no class prejudice," says one nurse-detective. "I go to a fair share of houses with maids and chauffeurs. Parents in the upper and middle classes get hysterical when I tell them that one of them, or their child, has been named as a contact. And there's a double standard: fathers get apoplectic if they hear that...
...SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR, by Marguerite Duras. An early novel that tells a shaggy-dog story about a mysterious woman, rich and beautiful, who roams the seven seas looking for a long-lost lover...
Feudal Loyalty. In the first phase of local elections, 1,004 villages will elect councils of six to twelve members, with the candidate receiving the largest vote becoming chairman of the village. The councils will restore a large measure of long-lost self-rule to the villagers, since they will be empowered to make decisions in some 15 different spheres, ranging from taxation to school construction. They will be able to spend up to $425 on their own; larger sums must be discussed with province chiefs or Saigon. As the next step, 4,487 hamlets (subdivisions of villages) will elect...
...made the most heartfelt speech at the presentation of the award was Dr. Albert E. Holland, Dr. del Mundo's long-lost friend from Santo Tomas. After his release, Holland had turned from business to education, and last spring Hobart's trustees picked him to take over as president, beginning this month...
...portrays Judex with the stubborn, single-minded intensity of a reformed Dracula. The plot that roils around him is mostly post-Victorian gimcrackery, carried out in a pure period style that offers everything from mad little chases in vintage jalopies to the acrobatics of human flies, from reunions of long-lost sons and ruined fathers to the machinations of a rascally banker whose ill-gotten capital gains keep Judex awake nights. So does the banker's daughter (Edith Scob), a lovely wisp of a heroine. All crumpled organdy and helplessness yet clearly indestructible, she is drugged, chloroformed, kidnaped, nearly...