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...Boston is back to swimming pools again. Once burned by the shelter boom-to-bust, the manufacturers are twice wary. Says Norton: "If we had another international crisis, I don't know of a manufacturer who would make a move of his own until we got an explicit national plan endorsing home shelters...
...President Sarah Gibson Blanding. 63, the gentle Kentucky lady who has run Vassar for 16 years (and will retire in 1964). Miss Blanding might have answered lightly. But in part because she was indignant at magazine articles condoning sexual experimentation, she stood up at a compulsory assembly and got explicit...
...responsibility toward society." But 40% of the girls dissented. "If the speech were taken seriously," said one girl, "probably two-thirds of the students would withdraw." Said another: "If Vassar is to become the Poughkeepsie Victorian Seminary for Young Virgins, then the change of policy had better be made explicit in admissions catalogues." More to the point, the question of whether personal morals concern Vassar only when they bring the college into "public disrepute" got an affirmative answer from 81% of the students...
...Fleming calls this "the bang-bang kisskiss formula." But it takes more than this to account for the undisputed eminence of James Bond as the best-known wearer of a shoulder holster in print. One explanation is Bond's universal expertise. His man-of-the-worldsmanship is so explicit that his fans' fantasies have a rich and varied diet to feed on. His cigarettes, with their three distinctive gold rings (a considerable security risk), are blended for him of a Balkan tobacco mixture by Morlands of Grosvenor Street. For breakfast: "The single egg in the dark blue...
...Whim of the Pope. A cardinal, according to an old Roman riddle, is a whim of the Pope; he must vow absolute obedience to the will of the man who holds the See of St. Peter, must get explicit papal permission to leave Rome or its suburbs. But a cardinal is also, next to the Pope, the most privileged and the most powerful cleric in the Roman Catholic Church. As one of the most spectacular dressers of Christendom, he has to lay out at least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during...