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...Marriage of a Young Stockbroker is derived from a book by Charles Webb, who wrote the novel The Graduate. It is directed by Lawrence Turman, who produced the film of The Graduate. Its hero, William Alren, might well be Graduate Ben Braddock after a couple of years of wedded atrophy. But Marriage is neither as facile nor as funny as The Graduate, and Richard Benjamin, who plays the stockbroker, comes off like a dry-cleaned Dustin Hoffman...
Experimenting with 20 high school and college students who had never studied Russian, Psychologists C. Michael Levy and Wilse B. Webb of the University of Florida undertook to teach them six Russian nouns and their English meanings. For two nights, just before the students dropped off to sleep, they heard a "conditioning tape" that assured them they would learn while they slept if they were willing to do so. For the next five nights, when they had fallen asleep, the students heard a recording of the paired nouns after a taped voice identified as that of "your Russian teacher" promised...
Like any good reporter, U.P.I. Correspondent Catherine M. Webb wanted to phone in the news. Emergingfrom the jungle along Cambodia's embattled Highway 4, the pretty New Zealander and five companions flagged down a Cambodian military vehicle and rode to a town 25 miles southwest of Phnom-Penh. There, Kate Webb-missing for 24 days and widely presumed dead -rang up U.P.I.'s office in the capital and told her startled and relieved colleagues that she was "alive and well...
Cornered the day after a Cambodian position they were visiting had been overrun, Webb and her companions were held by the Communists for three weeks in hideouts in the Elephant mountains southwest of Phnom-Penh. On the whole, she reported, the Communists "treated us well." No one knows just why she was freed. No one may ever know the identity of the woman in the shallow grave. Following usual Cambodian army practice, the body was cremated on the spot...
Moving back into the overrun position, Cambodian troops recently came upon several bodies. One of them, found partially clothed in a shallow grave, with a bullet wound in the chest and another in the head, was almost certainly Kate Webb's. She had become U.P.I.'s bureau manager in Phnom-Penh last February, at the age of 28, after her predecessor, Frank Frosch, was gunned down along with Pulitzer-prizewinning Photographer Kyoichi Sawada in a Viet Cong ambush. Webb is the tenth journalist known to have died in Cambodia since the war spilled across its borders last spring...