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...candlelit dinner parties-but by no means all of it was. At a jampacked citizens' meeting, Anglican Bishop John Carter condemned the hostels as the work of "morally sick" people. Said one white housewife: "My maid, who is 66 years old, just wept and said to me: 'Madam, we are people, not cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: High-Rise Apartheid | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...with political tidbits as well as a list of the major works of pornography and blasphemy to be found in the city's private libraries. The fictional Irish betrayer Gypo Nolan, in the movie The Informer, turned in his best friend to the British for ? 20. A whorehouse madam collected $5,000 for leading the FBI to John Dillinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Informers Under Fire | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

STEVE PETERMAN is his daughter Chaste; he carries it off quite deftly, too. Tom Wells, as Betay the local madam, is none too broad herself. Barry Harman uses his role as Miss Glory Morning to lead into a couple of quite accomplished dance routines. The role itself he tends to underplay--during his bedroom scene, he sounds more like Deborah Kerr swearing off tea and sympathy than the "whore with a heart of gold" he's supposed...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Wrongway Inn | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...picture director for 36 years; of liver failure following surgery; in Palm Springs, Calif. Hollywood was making silent movies when Lang arrived in 1925, but he made the jump into talkies, Technicolor and wide screens with ease. He directed nearly 40 films including Cheaper by the Dozen, Call Me Madam, Can Can and The King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1972 | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...reflects the ancient pattern of the Indo-European languages, seen also, for example, in French: hommes et femmes heureux "happy men and women" (with the masculine form of the adjective). Thus we say: All men are created equal. Each student shall discuss his paper topic with his section man. Madam Chairman, I object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRONOUN ENVY | 11/16/1971 | See Source »

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