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...onetime ship's captain, was head of the Dutch Military Intelligence in Indonesia after World War II. He won the lasting hatred of Indonesians by helping to suppress the Indonesia revolt against the Dutch (1947-49), was accused of using inhuman interrogation methods, e.g., putting a boring tick on the navel of a prisoner and waiting for the man to break. When he decided to return to the new Indonesian republic as a Dutch shipping firm executive, his friends warned him against...
...hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without giving close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards, relaxing on," "Forearms, hair on," "Widow, making friends and having fun" and "Scurvy, disease of sailors." The point of going to so much trouble is also...
...large print on the posters for a current movie announces, "This movie was filmed on location . . . inside a woman's soul!" The compulsion to get inside people, to find out "just what makes them tick" is not a new thing. But The Search for Bridey Murphy has done the most successful job of exploring it since the Ouiji board. Besides tramping around inside a woman's consciousness, the energetic Mr. Bernstein also takes her on a trip "back across time and space...
...large segment of the American reading public has the peculiar obsession to "get inside" somebody--anybody--to see "what makes 'em tick." This urge has sent thousands of readers to book stores in order to buy monodies on everyone from a nondescript called something-or-other to a precocious French adolescent. The more personal, the more "revealing," the more embarassing such books are, the better readers like them. Needless to say, this obsession has not gone unsatisfied within recent memory. In view of such a spectacle, it can hardly discredit a reader to approach somewhat gingerly Orville Prescott...
...THINK there is a very definite and distinct limit to what this country can charge its taxpayers over an extended period. I think that it gets right back into what makes a democracy tick, and into what is the difference between a free country and a slave state...