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...peculiar mood of pettishness and bad temper. In one Galilean village, 201 ballots were invalidated because they proved to be one-fifth of an inch smaller than regulation size. Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem refused to enter a polling place that had once been a Christian church and still bore across. Tel Aviv election officials were shocked when voters, en route to the beach, voted while wearing bikinis and swimming trunks...
Peeking out from newsstands across the U.S. this week were 500,000 copies of a gaudy new biweekly magazine called Show Business Illustrated. Its first issue was 156 pages thick, and it bore a family resemblance to a grown-up girlie magazine called Playboy. SBI is the latest publishing venture of Chicago Playboy Hugh M. Hefner, 35, who is also Playboy's proprietor...
...monocled British officers who went off to war with a pack of foxhounds and 40 dozen cases of champagne, and who could turn a man to jelly just by peering with wonder at his clothes. And Masters writes frankly of his affair with a married woman, who proudly bore him an illegitimate daughter before they could be married...
...deficit or a tax hike. So last month Mitchell and the council put together a tough new 13-point code aimed at stopping relief chiseling. Among the code's provisions: a three-month limitation on relief payments, except for the physically handicapped and the aged; unmarried mothers who bore any more illegitimate children would be cut off from assistance; whenever possible, food and rent vouchers would be issued instead of cash; able-bodied males on relief would have to work 40 hours each week for the city building-maintenance department; newcomers who settled in Newburgh without specific job offers...
...space, the Mercury capsule that bore Grissom 118 miles above the earth was a functioning-if not always perfect-vehicle; in the salt water of the Atlantic, it became as vulnerable as a paper boat in a storm. The difference spelled a near disaster that taught the U.S. space program some valuable lessons, and may cause a third astronaut to be flung aloft before the program can proceed with its plan to put a man into orbit...