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...doesn't notice that she's dumb-like a fox. She sprays him with a boy bomb of cheap scent called "Desire." and the next thing he knows she is standing there with her clothes off. Some weeks later she's got news for him: "Om pregnant...
...envisaged in a bill before Parliament that is solidly backed by both political parties, New Zealand's ombudsman (pronounced om-boods-man) will have access to government records and power to investigate based or autocratic official decisions, as well as inequities in the law. To be known officially as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Investigations, he will be able to take action on his own or on the complaint of any citizen who, for a modest fee ($2.80), seeks redress from unfair treatment by officialdom...
Most racers would have taken time off to recuperate. Not Van Looy. Fortnight ago, the Emperor and his red guard pedaled out of Milan om the start of one of bike racing's toughest and richest events: the $72,000 Giro d'Italia, a 21-day marathon that winds 2,608 miles around the Italian peninsula and traverses 6000-ft.-high mountain passes in a brutal test of stamina as well as speed. Last week, with seven legs completed and 14 to go, Van Looy suffered from stomach and leg cramps. But he was within striking distance...
Colliding Galaxies. As Baade grew oM, his hair grew white, but his blue eyes were always bright and alert, and his good spirits and accomplishments in astronomy did not diminish. He re-examined the special stars that astronomers had used for a generation to measure great distances-and found that they had been misinterpreted. Thus the observed universe, through Baade's work, doubled in size. In 1952, in collaboration with Rudolph Minkowski (TIME, June 27), he found the first pair of galaxies in collision. This proved that galaxies do in fact collide. Baade therefore examined close clus ters...
Citizen's Complaint. Last week many Britons were looking longingly at a Scandinavian answer to this problem-the institution of the ombudsman (pronounced om-boods-maw), a word that translates roughly as "the grievance man.'' Founded in Sweden 150 years ago in frank imitation of the ancient Roman 'tribunes of the people," whose job it was to watch the administration of justice and give assistance to citizens who were treated harshly, it has since spread to Finland and Denmark, is likely to be adopted this fall by Norway...