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...shazam! A great black gap in the consciousness of Simone de Beauvoir is illuminated. You see, Simone, "femininity" is not just some poetic veil of man's invention, woven to trick ladies into washing dishes and minding babies. A woman isn't just a man with a dress hung on him. A woman (and Godard's film saturates an imbeclic title with frightening profundity) is a woman...
...Swiss will lift the secrecy veil if a depositor is accused of a serious crime, but they refuse to worry about tax dodgers. "We cannot act as a policeman for foreign governments," argues Schaefer. He says that his bank provides numbered accounts only for people known to its officers-"not Al Capones or South American generals" -and that it turned down deposits from the Dominican Republic's ousted Trujillo family. But he allows that "not all banks in Switzerland apply the same standards...
...thrown into the fight by the Reds. But the blatant sending in of Northerners also means that Hanoi, which has tried to pretend that it was not really directing the war in the South, is, in the grim words of one U.S. official, "ready to take off the eighth veil...
Though neither doctors nor their patients like to talk about it, voluntary sterilization has become one of the most popular operations in the U.S. Statistics pile up behind a veil of silence, but best estimates are that 1,500,000 Americans have already been sterilized and 100,000 more are operated on each year...
...down the aisle of the 13th century church of Gardslosa, the pink-faced groom, British Trucking Executive John Ambler, 40, waited beside an altar trimmed with wild flowers and flanked with birch trees. Television lights gleamed on the bride's golden crown and her simple wedding dress and veil of Brussels lace. Standing before Lutheran Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren, Margaretha answered the traditional question with a soft "Ja." Ambler said, "I will...