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Influenza and related ills had millions of Americans by the throat last week. Since flu is not a disease that must be reported to health authorities, no accurate tally of the victims was possible. But it was estimated that 2,000,000 had been stricken in the Los Angeles area since New Year's, that 1,000,000 were laid up last week (500,000 of them in the city of Los Angeles, an equal number in surrounding communities). Across the nation, outbreaks were spotty. Boston reported up to 20% of schoolchildren absent. Pittsburgh was hard hit. Cleveland...
...proves loyal to his principal and stands up boldly to the villain (Roland Winters). "Accept my generous offer," the hero announces in words that are apparently intended to represent the all-American spirit of rough-and-tumble competition, "or go home and cut your throat." The hero of course makes the merger and gets the girl (Natalie Wood), with whom he lives wealthily ever after...
...subsequent acts her painter-lover cuts his throat when he learns of Lulu's sordid past. Then an elderly lecher marries her; when he discovers her trysting with his son, he offers her a gun to commit suicide and is promptly shot dead himself. Lulu is smuggled out of prison by another of her lovers, Countess Geschwitz, who fools the authorities by changing clothes with Lulu and taking her place ("Now," muses the ungrateful Lulu, "the poor monster sits in prison instead of me"). Lulu decamps to Paris, philanders with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end comes...
...ringing trips to New Hampshire. Scotch estimated that "it is not unfeasible that 20,000 voters, or about one-fourth of the electorate, would be contacted." He emphasized that he wanted to maintain an "anti-professional attitude" about the venture, because "the professionals have stuffed Nixon down everyone's throat...
...star is cloud-capped (6 ft. 10 in., 210 Ibs.) Darrall Imhoff, who averages only 11.8 points per game. Says Imhoff: "Sure, I like making buckets, but I really swell up when I block a shot. If you bat the ball down a guy's throat on his favorite shot, he's going to choke up a little. And he just might not try that shot again...