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...prestigious 160-year-old debating society, had a familiar ring: "This house would not fight for Queen and country." Exactly 50 years earlier, on Feb. 9, 1933, the Union debated the same subject in the same wood-paneled hall. On that occasion, memories of World War I trench warfare were still vivid, and the motion was carried, 275 to 153. Only a few people seemed concerned that Adolf Hitler had just come to power in Germany. Even so, the pacifists' victory stirred an outcry. The Daily Express ranted against the "woozy-minded Communists, practical jokers and sexual indeterminates...
...Flambeur. Trench coats, neon lights, rain-washed streets. And a man of honor in a world of thieves. French Writer-Director Jean-Pierre Melville's drama of a gambler down on his luck took 27 years to arrive in the U.S.; it is a classic example of the dark, doom-dripping genre known as film noir...
...Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich, Gavilan (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is a crime-busting oceanographer more at ease in a wet suit than a trench coat. And the Tuckers (Tim Matheson, Catherine Ricks) on Tucker's Witch (CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T), although carrying P.I. credentials, have to rely for investigative inspiration on Ms. Tucker's erratic supernatural skills. All of them are in serious need of some vocational guidance...
Back in Washington, Horace Busby, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson and now author of one of the best political newsletters in the country, savored the Chafee story, considered the trench-coated armies of political broadcasters currently unleashed to inflate the significance of this mid-term contest and chuckled. "An off-year election does not have a message outside a Congressman's own district," he said. That is something that Richard Scammon, dean of all election analysts, has contended for years. With only one exception (1934), he noted, the party in the White House has lost seats in every...
Short, who prefers casual jerseys to trench coats, began her undercover career 14 years ago, when she posed as a drug user or sometimes as a prostitute for the narcotics and vice divisions of the Buena Park, Calif., police department. She says her investigators are less expensive than her competitors' because she hires inexperienced young people and trains them herself. Business has been so good that Short is opening a new branch in San Bernardino, Calif., and even has visions of franchising her discount detective agency...