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...jungle trees and his nights raving endlessly. He lies on a litter of branches, blubbering and blabbering about reform in the Liberation army, while his friends search the woods for monkeys to eat. Whenever a police patrol comes near, the 20 loyal henchmen (and teen-age henchwomen) who still surround him hustle Kimathi into a nearby cave and gag him to keep him quiet...
Fernandel's black cassock, appearing in yet another film, might seem to have worn threadbare. But his religious mimicry and lugubrious countenance are still hilarious. The fantastic creatures which surround him, however, and the macabre tone of The Red Inn combine to muffle his easy-going humor...
...longer the tough, miraculous and mysterious sac of muscle will elude man's determination to control it. But one of the most hopeful items in medicine's advancing knowledge is that heart disease and heart attacks need cause far less of the chill dread that used to surround them (see box). "Perhaps the most dangerous thing we doctors can do in managing patients with heart or artery disease," says Page, "is to discourage them with too many don'ts. It is disturbing to me to read medical recipes for long life which first prohibit smoking, then alcohol...
Besides favoring a strictly limited list of charities, many people feel that more publicity should surround the annual campaign. Undoubtedly, few students know very much about the six charities listed, and rarely do the solicitors have a personal identification with any of the charities. One suggestion is to encourage the six organizations to mail out their own publicity blurbs. Another, perhaps just as effective, is to inform the solicitors more adequately about each charity's aims...
...Serious constitutional and legal complications surround the delegation of presidential powers when the President is too ill to attend to public business. The Constitution says that "in case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President . . ." But the Constitution fails to define "inability," and does not say who shall determine when it starts and when it ceases. The problem arose during the 80 days that President James Garfield lived after he was shot...