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...employee who goes to the police station to be registered fills out a form giving his permanent address, age, next of kin, and other details, and is photographed and fingerprinted. For a charge of two dollars he is issued an identification card bearing his photograph. An-other photograph and a set of fingerprints is kept on file with the town...
...touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Thus Shakespeare himself provides the reason why productions of his plays, flourishing in barns and parks beneath the stars, have become a hardy harbinger of summer. Nowadays, nearly every American is within a day's drive of some performance of the Bard. It may be spoken in Elizabethan English or Spanish with a New York accent, played by a professional repertory group or a traveling troupe, mounted in an authentic replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre or on a mobile stage truck...
...years ago by British Author Richard Hughes, it is on the surface a conventional tale of piracy, kidnaping, and adventure on the high seas. And like the corrosive original, its deeper purpose is to fathom the psyches of seven stolen children whose innocence is only skin deep. Blood kin to the tykes in Henry James's Turn of the Screw or William Golding's Lord of the Flies, they are remote, ritualistic, amoral-natives of a savage Lilliput that adults invade at their own risk...
SECRET AGENT (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). This imported espionage series presents Patrick McGoohan as British agent John Drake, who's no match for the U.S.'s Man from U.N.C.L.E. and no kin to his compatriot James Bond. The show, however, is in its first run here, which makes it one of the few new things around...
Both drug companies and academic research institutes have recently spent fortunes trying to isolate a contraceptive on the "nature knows best" reasoning, and they have failed dismally. The truth is that countless plants contain substances that are close chemical kin to the estrogen group of female hormones and, like the estrogens, will indeed prevent conception-but they are neither as good nor as safe as the artificial products now available...