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Wrote Machiavelli: "Taking everything into careful consideration, one will discover that an action which appears to be virtuous will lead to the ruin (of the prince) and another action which appears to be vicious will lead to his security and prosperity . . ." Louis HANEGRAEF Liège, Belgium...
...Mayo, 28, in the classic tradition of Hollywood cheesecake, whose body has been referred to by the Sultan of Morocco as "the most striking proof of God's existence." From bathing beauty parts she has recently been switched to juicier-and more heavily clothed-adventure roles. Her current: virtuous Lady Barbara in Captain Horatio Hornblower...
...admits) bequeathed to politics the tight "party-line" system that has plagued it ever since. No man did more than Dizzy to din radical notions into Tory skulls, yet he could also say without a qualm that "the movement of the middle classes for the abolition of slavery was virtuous, but it was not wise...
...strategic withdrawal, Gabin retires to Cherbourg, where he owns a cafe and movie house, but the barmaid and complications follow him. Finally, Gabin packs his mistress off to Paris, gets the despairing young man a job as hairdresser on the Queen Mary and, happily resigned, leads the still-virtuous barmaid to the altar...
What nebulous degree of respectability may have been regained by this action is of little consequence to the Quakers. The Red and Blue had played the prostitute among the virtuous habitants of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference for so long that not its reputation, but that of the N.C.A.A. was at stake. Purely and simply. Penn, to cut down the athletic deficit beanstalk gambled on the support of other blatantly and unhypocritically Big Time schools, gambled on the weakness of the N.C.A.A.--and lost...