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Metamorphoses may offer only a Cyclopean peek at Ovid's sportive immortals, but even Cyclops would agree that it is an amusing and salubrious eyeful...
...have a bona fide interest in the individual's background. Finance companies are acceptable; lawyers looking for ammunition in a divorce case are not. The FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and other Government agencies, which had easy access to data banks, must now have a court order to peek at an individual's dossier (except for checks on prospective employees). Credit-bureau officials who knowingly supply data to unauthorized clients risk a year in jail and a $5,000 fine. Says Senator William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat, who husbanded the bill through Congress: "At some point the individual...
Both writers cite small acts of compassion by some of Charlie Company's G.I.s while the killing went on all around them. One soldier saw three children peek from some brush where they were hiding, motioned them to lie flat. Several G.I.s shouted to distract a soldier just as he was about to shoot an elderly woman. About the only heroic figure in the mad morning was Lieut. Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who marked spots where he saw wounded children and women so that ground troops could provide medical aid. He was astonished and furious when...
...Michael L. Peek, a staff psychologist at the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, announced the results of the study at a meeting Sunday of the American Association of Suicidology...
...VICE-PRESIDENCY Programmed Diplomacy He was the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, and he behaved accordingly. Never venturing beyond protocol, he was one of the few visitors who did not even attempt a peek at the famous erotic sculpture at Hanuman Doka temple. "It's not really his sort of thing," explained a member of his party. At one point, he praised Nepal's unique village-assembly system of government and what it could mean "for the future of India." But that geographic slip aside, Vice President Spiro Agnew...