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...Alfonso, marriage becomes a nightmare and the big brass bed in their room an innerspring torture rack. Then abruptly-too abruptly-the film shifts moods. Regina is smugly, victoriously pregnant; the queen bee has been served. Soon Alfonso finds her frigidity as maddening as her earlier ardor. One last time she condescends, and he is carted away in an ambulance...
Veteran Curt Simmons, 34, suddenly found himself pitching three shutouts in three starts. Ernie Broglio, bothered by a recurring tendon inflammation, was strong enough to rack up his 16th victory. Shortstop Dick Groat, 32, fortified with Novocain for a painful ribcage injury, is baseball's best batter...
European Formula. The Brenninkmeyers have adhered to formula, grown by manufacturing simple clothes and selling them off the rack (for as little as $2.50 a dress) with a minimum of frills. Conservatism has helped them in Europe but not in two previous attempts to enter the U.S. One C. & A. store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue failed in the 1950s, and a second store in Brooklyn is hardly a moneymaker. With Ohrbach's, the Brenninkmeyers hope to acquire the retailing flair of a U.S. company that has made a name for itself by imaginative advertising and artful merchandising...
Caterers & Couriers. U.S. students, in short, rack up a range of summertime experience that is a far cry from the old-fashioned lifeguard and learn-the-business jobs. Much of the student activity is being channeled into good works such as the Experiment in International Living, Operation Crossroads, the American Friends Service Committee, the International Association for the Exchange of Student Technical Experience and the Northern Students Movement. University of Chicago Students Jack Fanselow and Tom Burdick will spend their summer flying balloons in Manitoba to measure cosmic rays, and Harvard Senior David Crane has organized a mobile catering-bartending...
...says Woodham-Smith. can be "traced to a single source-the system under which land had come to be occupied and owned in Ireland, a system produced by centuries of successive conquests, rebellions, confiscations and punitive legislation.'' The system involved the absentee and irresponsible landlord, the rack-renting agent, and a tenantry driven onto smaller and smaller patches of land, until whole families existed on one or even half an acre of soil...