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...been a reluctant and benevolent dictator, who has vastly improved the stability of a country that was paralyzed by squabbling politicians before he took over. Considering Pakistan's backwardness and poverty, the Ayub-designed electoral system is not half bad, giving the vote to 80,000 middle-and upper-class electors. While that is a tiny percentage in a total population of 110 million, most of those millions are not only illiterate but totally ignorant of political issues. With heavy support in rural areas, where many Moslem electors particularly disapprove of a woman's candidacy and where Ayub...
Yale uses a computer to assign freshmen to the upper-class Colleges, permitting the preference of neither students or Masters to figure in the final decision...
...attributed the decline partly to "changing class composition" at many colleges. At Harvard, he said, "lower-middle-class students...no longer feel a need to ape upper-class politesse" because they are "conscious of their statu
...that the total exceeded 100), and a picture of a ruthless white-slave ring that had been trafficking in young girls for at least ten years. The girls, ranging in age from 14 to 25 and all from poor families, were lured by promises of jobs as maids in upper-class families. Then they were raped by a ring employee and hustled off to a training brothel in the farming town of San Francisco del Rincón. At least 2,000 girls had passed through the ring since 1954. Most of them were sold to brothel owners throughout Mexico...
...hires, or rather keeps, as his tutor an aristocrat (Denholm Elliott) whose family has banished him, for some reason or other, from polite society. The ensuing scenes of a rouge's education provide some of the film's funniest moments, crisply flattening Oxford, Cambridge, and a variety of upper-class attitudes...