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...theory. Many children's personalities are warped, he argues, because they happen to be born with jug ears, and get teased about them. Often the nose is the worrisome feature-and it does not have to be as big as Cyrano de Bergerac's. The passion to possess a sort of U.S. standard nose, says Dr. Apton, brings him patients who want their broad, flat noses built up with a bit of ridge, others who want their ridges taken down a notch. Dr. Apton generally obliges...
...about Rodriguez' luminous beauties. The Spanish ambassador asked to borrow two of them for exhibition in Spain. But decency leaguers, known as the beatas (the pious ones), were scandalized. Father Eduardo Ospina, Jesuit professor of art at the Universidad Javeriana, sided with the beatas: "Crowds don't possess the artistic capacity to appreciate the total beauty of the human body." Bogotá's Roman Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Crisanto Luque, formally asked the Education Ministry (which runs the museum) to take the offending ladies down...
...cast made up for its lack of experience by singing and acting with even greater vitality than the regular performers. Even the chorus and dancers contributed to the Sparkling-Burgundy effect which Johann Strauss' incomparable music created. Only two of the leads (Brenda Lewis and Donald Dame) possess really outstanding voices. Miss Lewis has all the vocal and physical equipment for an effective portrayal of the voluptuous Rosalinda. Her performance would have been flawless were it not for her careless enunciation, and perhaps this will be remedied as she grows accustomed to the acoustics in the Opera House...
...Lions possess one of the top deep men of the Ivy League in Captain Hovard Hansen. Not only is the stocky Hansen hard to stop a: the line--he gained 571 yards last year--but he is a good man in the open field, too. He led the Lion scoring with 56 points, and gained 161 yards on the 12 passes he caught...
...Jayewardene, a slim, soft-spoken man with a razor-like tongue. It was interesting, said Jayewardene, that Russia wanted to "insure the people of Japan the fundamental freedoms of expression, of press, religious worship-freedoms," he added acidly, "which the people of the Soviet Union would clearly love to possess and enjoy...