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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last May Colonel Johnstone slapped a 10 o'clock weekday curfew on teenagers. At the same time he also went after their mothers. Again and again, he heard complaints that someone had made a lewd remark to a G.I. wife in a PX or pinched her bottom. The trouble was, said the colonel, that too often such women came in two categories-either "provocatively clad" or, if "less young and shapely, disgustingly clad." Last week the colonel clamped down in earnest. From now on, any serviceman's wife who tries to enter a public building on base will...
With the advent of short skirts, high heels and Dutch Teddy boys from the mainland, public cuddling became more basic. On one wild night last winter, 500 youngsters, many of them drunk, rioted on the main street. Pubs thereafter were ordered closed at 10 o'clock on Saturday nights. This ended neither the boozing nor the love-making on the dike. Last week Urk's irked elders cracked down. A new Urk law made it a crime to "trudge, slouch, lounge, saunter, flock together" or "to sit or lie" after dark along public roads. Maximum penalty: a fine...
Unfortunately, Myra Mailloux seems all wrong as Patty O'Neill. There is nothing naive or innocent in this characterization; nor, for that matter, is there anything genuinely worldly. Miss Mailloux has a way of delivering her lines that makes one doubt that she really knows what she is saying. The result in an ingenuous Patty, wide-eyed but blank...
...every hand, he heard radios blaring the hastily pressed record Ingemar O Ingemar, learned that even an Ingemar Cha-Cha (lyrics by Actress Signe Hasso) would soon be released...
This summer for the first time, travelers to Rome can explore one of the world's loveliest palaces: the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, on the Corso. One picture gallery has long been public, but now on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, between 11 o'clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent...