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...INSPECTOR MAIGRET AND THE DEAD GIRL, by Georges Simenon (192 pp.; Crime Club; $2.75). The battered body of a young virgin, dressed in a cheap, rented evening gown, is found on a dark Paris street. That is all the inspector knows when he begins to collect the clues to an obscure, unhappy life. Until the last few wildly improbable pages it is medium-good Simenon, as fascinating as a real-life case because of painstaking police detail...
...process employed by kitchen workers in the preparation of chicken is the direct cause of Wednesday's outbreak of intestinal disorder, John C. Morris, sanitary inspector for the Hygiene Department, revealed last night. The purchasing system used by the Central Kitchen is indirectly at fault, he added...
...Stranger. In San Francisco, the burglary trial of Edward J. Devlin was interrupted when a police inspector tapped Juror Vernon F. Bartholomew outside the courtroom, arrested him on a bad check charge...
Last week, as French schools opened for the fall term, only 22 Ifs pupils showed up. The rest were out on a parent-instigated strike. Petitions were sent to the District Inspector of Education in Caen and even to the Ministry in Paris. Farmers and aproned mothers paraded the streets with placards denouncing the headmaster as a "solid...
Everything was fine until a U.S. Department of Labor wage-hour inspector turned up at the little shop last summer. When he found out about the coffee breaks, he said that Greinetz would have to pay for the time. Said the inspector: "As soon as they step in your shop, they are on your time." Greinetz refused to pay, so the Labor Department took the question to Colorado's U.S. District Court...