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...said that they still practice coitus interruptus, and most of the women prefer the unreliable "rhythm method." Only 9% of the women take the pill, while some 30% of all those polled said that they are opposed to any form of birth control. Many were skittish about answering questions regarding masturbation and homosexuality, and some declined to reply at all. Only 19% of the women admitted to ever having masturbated, as compared with 73% of the men. Homosexuality proved even less popular, on paper at least; only 2% of the women and 6% of the men admitted one or more...
...Chairman T. Vincent Learson, "will never happen." IBM's lawyers accused the Justice Department of attempting to complicate and stall the case further by expanding its complaint beyond the company's domestic operations to include its fast-expanding international business as well. Even investors, after an initially skittish reaction that sent the company's stock tumbling 14 points, rallied behind Wall Street's perennial darling. IBM closed the week at 387, up eight points from its Monday opening...
With outside investors already skittish about the Philippines, Marcos went out of his way to emphasize that his reforms did not pose a threat to foreign capital. That mainly comes from U.S. corporations, who have a $1 billion stake-more than in any other Asian country except Japan-in oil, mining and other industries in the Philippines. In a telegram to Malacanang Palace, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Manila, forgetting its manners as a foreign guest, effusively praised Marcos' program...
...outlaws in this movie are born of history but made of myth. Jesse James is crazy, a killer by blood and pleasure. Cole Younger, equally deadly, is shrewder, less skittish. Both are bandits who become political heroes, leaders of a gang of irregulars who ride through Missouri warring against the new railroad that is appropriating the farm land...
...comes at the resolution of the film's main action. A distinguished middle-aged lawyer is unable to consummate his second marriage to a skittish child-wife--who has meanwhile fallen in love with the lawyer's church-studying stepson. At a house party which the three other love pairs attend also, the wife and the stepson, by a variety of plot and thematic clevernesses, end up in the same bed. The young couple make their exit in the lawyer's carriage, while he looks on and does nothing. The wife's virginal white veil flutters to the ground...