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...values, expectations, standards of living and ways of life can be totally different from what the American student has inherited and experienced." Its major goal is "development of character and motivation"-a sense of perspective. And it guarantees official deferment-draft exempt status-to the student who interrupts the staid and established sequence of academics with a year in the "real world...
...them out at the Americana, and strolling violins pierced the air in the Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami are king"); another, in staid Old San Juan, was discreetly latinized to El Gallo Rojo. This year there are Sunday bullfights in the Sixto Escobar Stadium-but no blood, as a concession to sensitive American tastes...
...women agree. "Any girl with a good figure will have a man around to protect her," sniffs a Johannesburg model. Other women protest that a bra holster makes them appear top-heavy on the portside. To which Britain's staid Tailor & Cutter added archly: "A couple of hand grenades would seem more esthetic." Joubert and Taylor are unworried. They have nothing to fear but the topless dress...
Married. John Crosby, 52, the New York Herald Tribune's longtime (1946-60), splenetic radio-TV columnist, now its London-based girl-watcher, social essayist and sporadic political pundit; and Katharine Wood, 26, former fashion editor of Edinburgh's staid Scotsman; he for the second time; in London...
...York's Francis Cardinal Spellman has made no secret of his preference for the traditional way. But now many churches in his archdiocese have a lay commentator to lead the congregation in reciting the Gloria, Creed and other prayers in English. In the equally conservative diocese of Brooklyn, staid Irish and Italian churches have been conducting midweek rehearsals and demonstration Masses to accustom their flocks to the prayers and hymns...