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...others the pruning knife, and even the best could use manicure scissors. But there are funny things in a take-off of a book-and-author luncheon, the plight of a man who has sworn off cigarettes, and a parody of a sentimental French chanteuse. Assisting-usually at their peril-are Comics David Burns and Jack Gilford, and Lenore (Junior Miss) Lonergan. Now grown up, Actress Lonergan should make a good comedienne when she gets the right comedy...
South Africa's Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga, 67, is known as the Old Sphinx of Premier Daniel Malan's cabinet. While Nationalist colleagues have cried the Black Peril and built up racial tension, reticent Havenga has secluded himself in his Pretoria office or at his Free State horse farm. There he has brooded over the country's shortage of dollar exchange. He visited the U.S. last year, tried in vain to drum up a loan, discovered that his government's oppression of its black majority was giving South Africa a bad name abroad...
...When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear!" Over and over the story, ending as he began:-"There is no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks like...
...same time, Flanders urged reciprocal trade with the protection of the "peril point" provision of the 80th Congress. "It was not wise," he said, "to eliminate it from the law passed by the 81st Congress...
...August 1865, a bald, middle-aged man lunged through the streets of Budapest thrusting circulars into the hands of startled pedestrians. "Young men and women! You are in mortal danger!" they read. "The peril of childbed fever menaces your life! Beware of doctors, for they will kill you! Remember! When you enter labor unless everything that touches you is washed with soap and water and then chlorine solution, you will die and your child with you! . . . Your friend, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis...