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Within minutes after the news was broadcast, the prostitutes, pimps, pickpockets and pot peddlers who were to be the raid's targets started clearing out of the area. When the police arrived at midnight, the dock country was as quiet as a park after a Sunday-school picnic. Rummaging through one hotel, cops found a sailor bedded down with a woman, but she claimed she was a bride, and had a marriage license to prove it. Desperate for dirt, the raiders were reduced to little more than issuing a summons for an uncovered garbage...
...better chance of leaving it there. Bill Harrah's glossy casinos-two on the shore of Lake Tahoe, one 56 miles away in Reno-are a rich vein only for their owner. The prospectors who play at his tables, like gamblers everywhere, pay dearly for the occasional jack pot, and the round-the-clock entertainment...
...interesting, let alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in and out of the beds Zane has made for them are, on the whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane's monsters no doubt have read their Henry Miller carefully and know their cues perfectly. Only their performances are shoddy, awkward, and deserving of the stage manager's book...
...proposal for a three and a half-year seminar program, to begin in the freshman year, was made last month by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology. Bruner recently called for active debate on his proposal, in order to "stir the pot." He also declared himself interested in any other proposals which might alleviate "the lack of intellectual excitement" in the present system...
...Minister Harold Macmillan stepped forward toward the leadership of the free world, the British press has been bursting with local pride. And in the process of building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev at a summer summit conference...