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...Guesswork. It is not easy to say who should be believed. From Jeremy Wolfenden, London Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow, came word that "Russian sources decisively reject the idea that Mr. Khrushchev will retire either from the premiership or the secretaryship of the party." Merle Fainsod, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, said Crankshaw "is spinning things out rather thin." William Griffith, research associate on Communist affairs at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, declared, "I would not say that the weight of evidence is on Crankshaw's side." But just in case it was, Griffith...
...issues as racial segregation ("This is not the sort of thing we should get excited and fanatical about") and divorce ("Adultery is becoming such a menace that the time will come when it ought to be made a criminal offense"). On the other hand, he boldly supported the 1957 Wolfenden Report, which recommended, among other things, that homosexuality between two consenting adults should no longer be a criminal offense; he said he would like attempted suicide to be no longer listed as a crime; and he has been one of the most outspoken supporters of birth control and the almost...
...flesh and blood, but mainly flesh, world of Soho provides a background of night life and street life, strippers and whores (it's pre-Wolfenden and Street Offenses Act). Harvey's treatment of his common-law wife, Sylvia Syms, an ecydysiast who wants to be a singer, heightens the immediacy of the theme of survival of the fittest...
...seats. The unwitting usurpers: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, enjoying an incognito evening out. Apologetically and still unrecognized by the audience, the royal pair moved over. Earlier, Philip was better prepared for a surprise that arose at Reading University, whose vice chancellor. Sir John Wolfenden, awarding him an honorary doctor of science degree, glowingly described the prince in the words of Poet John Dryden: A man so -various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome...
Denigrated Ladies. Based upon the Wolfenden Report published 18 months ago (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957), Butler's 600-word bill covers prostitutes and the pimps who live on their earnings, has nothing to say about the other subject raised by Wolfenden: the prevalence of homosexuality. The maximum ?2 ($5.60) fine for prostitution, which has been on the books since 1840, would now be increased to ?25 and three months in jail, and no longer would a cop have to prove that the girls were "annoying" anyone...