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...long as an Annapolis senior manages to stay above the bottom 4% of his class, he is as good as an ensign already. Such is the effect of the Naval Academy's unofficial "flunk quota," brought to light last week after a teacher tried to defend his right to fail as many midshipmen as he deemed deficient in scholarship. Though flunk quotas are larger in the lower classes, Annapolis is thus stuck with a grade system that encourages students to coast. Moreover, not only Fs but also Ds are frowned on, and grades are regularly inflated to achieve...
...Little Caesar) takes on a case of adultery in France and loses it. While Heroine Jean Seberg languishes around Cannes in St. Laurent originals, her Psychiatrist Husband Arthur Hill leaves her and goes traipsing through Europe on behalf of mental health. Of course, Jean meets a smooth young Navy ensign (Sean Garrison) who seems uncertain whether he is supposed to be wearing his uniform or modeling...
Impulsively, Jean invites the ensign home to admire the Provencal decor and share her chicken salad, and in no time at all she is half mad with guilt over "some sort of animal hunger" that has driven them together. Looks more like vegetable hunger, really, but whatever has got into them doesn't agree with Sean. He turns nasty. They quarrel. A gun goes...
Married. William J. Lederer, 53, author (Ensign O'Toole and Me, A Nation of Sheep), former collaborator of Eugene Burdick (see below); and Ruth Corinne ("Corky") Edwards Lewis, 38, co-publisher with Lederer of the Honolulu Beacon, local monthly humor magazine; both for the second time; in San Francisco...
...Canadianized version of the British merchant marine flag, the Red Ensign was first flown by Canadian merchant vessels in 1892, became Canada's "unofficial" flag...