Word: placing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...introduces a French girl (Annie Fargé) who comes to the U.S. to marry an American architect (Marshall Thompson). Last week more cheer than anybody had a right to expect grew out of a plot in which the young couple's home was taken over as a polling place and the heroine wanted to turn the whole thing into a party, with ruffles on the voting booths. Although the assembly line may soon run the ignorant-immigrant theme into the ground, Actress Fargé triumphantly resists being merely Lucille Ball with a French accent. She is easily the brightest...
...state with the strongest law holding a manufacturer responsible for the purity of its products is Louisiana. To San Francisco Lawyer Melvin ("The King of Torts") Belli, who has made a career out of damage suits, Louisiana seemed the ideal place to establish a legal precedent that tobacco companies can be held liable for death from lung cancer...
Under the French protectorate (1912-56), the once proud university sank even lower as a kind of Moslem Kaffeeklatsch, without exams or degrees, a place of courtyard classrooms where masters and disciples swatted at fusty theological disputes. Students lived in airless cubicles, three to one windowless room, sleeping on the floor and cooking on charcoal burners...
Remarried. Grace Metalious, 35, lusty chronicler of the deflowering of modern New England (Peyton Place); and George Metalious, 35, her first husband and father of her three children, who is now guidance director of a Martha's Vineyard, Mass, high school; at Elkton, Md.. only a day after Grace divorced her second husband, Laconia. N.H. Disk Jockey Thomas J. ("T.J. the D.J.") Martin. "After I had left T.J.." explained Novelist Metalious, "I sat for a long time in my house in New Hampshire. Last spring one day George came to my house and said...
Earlier, Princeton had opened a new "social quadrangle," suspiciously like a Harvard House (though the term was studiously avoided)--a group of dormitories, a central dining hall (in place of the traditional eating clubs), a library, and social facilities. Academically, the faculty approved a two-week reading period at the end of each term for independent thinking, reading, and writing-something Harvard has had for more than a decade. Moreover, contrary to the students' Republicanism, 72 per cent of the faculty voted pro-Kennedy, following, perhaps, the example of the very liberal Harvard faculty...