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Common gossip says that youngsters are engaging in sexual intercourse earlier these days than they used to, but there has been precious little statistical evidence to back it up. Now Johns Hopkins Demographers Melvin Zelnik and John Kantner have come up with some firm data. After studying the sexual habits of unmarried teen-age girls, they announced last week that virginity is indeed outmoded. If the study sample is representative, almost half of all single American girls become non-virgins before they...
...Melvin Belli, 64, the dapper and orotund lawyer who has had a lifelong love affair with the public eye, was visiting Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts when a hostess singled him out. "You're a very famous lawyer, aren't you?" asked pretty Lia Triff, 23, a student at the University of Maryland. Belli beamed. "Your name begins with a B," said Miss Triff. Belli swelled with such pleasure that, as Lia put it later, "I couldn't resist. I said: 'I've got it -you're F. Lee Bailey...
...modest act of hope at a time when most intellectuals are playing it safe with predictions of Apocalypse. "There is a great deal yet to be discovered about America," Novak concludes. He has, in fact, attacked the American Dream in order to open up a possible second chapterfor it. Melvin Maddocks
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird ordered a top-level team of logistics specialists to Vietnam Wednesday to determine whether Saigon requires more American military...
...dehumanized intellect. But he is not-quite. As in his first novel, War Games, brilliance is redeemed by anguish-evidence that Sloan's passion is not for the labyrinth but for the people trapped in it. And to potential subway-syndrome readers, this makes all the difference. "Melvin Maddocks...