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...York's Democratic chieftains made few headlines last May when they picked Arthur Klein as their candidate for Manhattan surrogate, a job rich in patronage and rife with possibilities of scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss...
...underlying cause of the trouble is a deficiency in a red-blood-cell enzyme (as complex as its name): glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). And, strangely, a deficiency of G-6-PD is not necessarily bad. It confers a definite survival value in areas where malaria is rife, and it has evolved into a common condition among the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and West African Negroes. But if these malaria survivors take to modern medicine, they often find their enzyme peculiarity a grave liability. Widely prescribed drugs may throw them into a devastating, life-threatening anemia...
Frivolity Is Rife? Even though 80% of Oxford's students get substantial scholarship aid, much of this goes to students who do not really need it, since admissions examinations have been rigged against the lowly graduates of Britain's state-supported schools; the report suggests that some of the money should go instead to enlarging the faculty. In effect, Oxford prefers to continue educating boys from private preparatory schools and leave the education of others to the red brick colleges and such new universities as Sussex and Essex. All of this lends credence to a recent howl...
...existential sensualist, joined forces with Director Tony Richardson and Actress Jeanne Moreau, a festival favorite, to produce Mademoiselle, a story of Sodom in the suburbs. It should have been a festival favorite too; instead it got soundly, roundly booed, possibly because Moreau overworks her villainy. The film is rife with animal butchery and exotic sexuality. Sniffed one critic: "Maybe we didn't know that licking the nose of a gentleman in the moonlight constituted eroticism . . . but did we really have to know...
...moment in Verdi's La Forza del Destino, when Don Alvaro throws his pistol to the floor to show that he is above dueling with his sweetheart's father, the gun goes off and fires a bullet right through Pop's heart. Mistaken identity is rife; a girl who has spent the night with a man usually fails to recognize him next day if he changes capes. Every operatic boudoir seems to have a screen with someone hiding behind it, but the searchers never have the wit to look there. The hero or heroine is always good...