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...Jerome K. Fisher told the American Dermatological Association. And much of the trouble can be traced to what goes into the victim's stomach. From a study of 1,088 patients seen in ten years of Pasadena practice, Dermatologist Fisher has concluded that a principal villain is milk...
...villain who emerges from the book is not the Viet Cong, but the Diem regime. Beginning in 1956 and particularly with the legislation of 1959, the Diem "witch hunt" left no choice to those in opposition except prison, exile, or joining the guerillas. Moreover, Lacouture accuses Diem of haughtily rejecting all Hanoi overtures for the unification foreseen by the 1954 Geneva agreements and cutting short all attempts for closer relations with the North...
...care, be-yourself air helps make the program an even more sought-after showcase for visiting stars than the "guest villain" spot on Batman. Comedian Bill Cosby was delighted to do a guest bit when he found he could go to a football game on taping day (Sunday) instead of rehearsing. For the first time in her career, Lucille Ball found herself able to nap before going on. "You know," she told Dean, "you make cooked spaghetti look tense." Returning the favor, Martin took a guest spot with Lucy, disgustedly found himself spending four times as long rehearsing...
...least likely to threaten Bond's supremacy is That Man in Istanbul, with Horst Bucholz battling a one-armed villain atop a minaret and performing other improbable feats to rescue a kidnaped scientist. A masquerade in a Turkish bath, long visits with FBI Sexpot Sylva Koscina and a tour of the city cannot save Istanbul. Delivering insouciant asides to the audience brings out the unseasoned ham in Horst...
...second inspection, however, Bondaryev seems to be dealing more in apologetics than in admonitions. He carefully distinguishes between the villain and the party. The villain is presented as a fascist infiltrator who got into the party by a trick; the party is presented as the Mystical Body of Marx, the Bride of History invested with infallibility. Current conditions are meticulously unmentioned. Conditions under Stalin are discussed with an almost complicitous complacency-police brutality, for instance, is noted only once, and then it is dismissed as a "mistake" that stems from "love for Stalin" and certainly "cannot last...