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Prophylactics manufacturers, whose sales are expected to jump by 10%, to $110 million this year, contend that their ads promote not promiscuity but responsible sexual practices. TV viewers may be ready to agree. Harriette Robinet, 55, of Oak Park, Ill., admits that she is "squeamish" about the idea of condom ads on prime time but thinks today's young adults need the information. Says she: "It's all very pathetic, but it's necessary...
...criticism of the U.S. role in Viet Nam. But it also makes a point of defending French standards against the onslaught of foreign customs, has tried to ban everything from bubble gum to the English-language prefix "super." "We've always been non-engage," says Editor Louis Gabriel-Robinet. "We've never belonged to any political party-just the party of balance...
Little noticed by the world, the Union, founded by British and French parliamentarians in 1888 takes itself quite seriously, claims to have germinated the idea of The Permanent Court of International Justice, the League of Nations. Press Agent Robinet de Clery ballyhoos the Union as a more universal institution than the League, because Japan and the U. S., League nonmembers, and totalitarian Italy which finds the League distasteful, regularly send delegates. Germany and Soviet Russia, however, did not attend...
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