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Abetted behind the scenes by dear old Mother, Booth advances from obscurity to quasi nobility as inheritor of a fabulous English country seat-actually Blenheim Palace, where much of the filming took place, marking a ruinous setback to the dignity of Britain's stately homes. Hollywood Writer-Director Andrew Stone's handiwork, billed as a black comedy, hues to the popular misnomer for any movie that dares to flaunt some inept waggery or mishandle a corpse. Secret obviously deserves a description of another color. "Green-sickly" might...
...privy Kalendar of the Ku Klux Klan, the code names for October, November and December are Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling. In this Year of the Klan 100, they may be Ruinous too. For whatever individual nemeses may await the Klan's various leaders during 13 weeks of public hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, daylight and logic are as lethal to the huggermugger mystique of the "invisible empire" as Lysol is to microbes...
...companies alone abolished nearly 50,000 jobs between 1962 and 1964, largely as a result of declining military demand. In small communities such as Port Clinton, Ohio (pop. 7,000), which stands to lose 2,000 jobs when the Erie Army Depot closes next year, such shifts can be ruinous. The committee therefore urged continued research and government help to soften the impact of changing military technology. This, rather than any likelihood of widespread unemployment as a result of disarmament, is the Administration's principal cutback worry...
...Partly out of a desire for revenue, partly out of simple desire, both industrialists decided to seduce the lady. She agreeably went off to America with one of them, came back with her virginity intact. Then she convinced the other man that she loved him, provoked him into a ruinous financial scheme, deserted him. Novelist Vailland. a sometime Communist who died in May, was also a successful journalist and film scenarist (Les Liaisons Dangereuses). His prizewin-nine novel, The Law, was a compelling study of greed, lust and power politics in a small Italian town. In his present book...
Gruening himself has been a birth control advocate since his 1912 graduation from the Harvard Medical School, and his advocacy has landed him in hot political water. In 1936, as Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administrator, he was shocked by the island's economically ruinous population growth. Using federal funds, he established 14 "maternal welfare clinics." That August he returned to the U.S. for a visit-and found himself an issue in Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign, accused of being anti-Catholic. He soon got a call from Jim Farley, F.D.R.'s political general. "Gruening," growled Farley, "what...