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...public advocates cry that the slightest evidence of private enterprise is a "giveaway" of the natural resources bequeathed "the people'' by the Almighty. Pro-private advocates shrill that an inch of dam-building aid from any government source amounts to a mile of "creeping socialism" and a rape of the "American Way." Under such a bombardment of absolutes, the electorate often loses the real problem: how to get cheaper electric power under specific conditions in specific places by means public, or private, or in any combination thereof...
Coast that old Reese had known: murder and rape, stabbings and gang brawls were the order of any night. The hospital declined with the neighborhood...
Japan's No. 1 cinemactress, dove-necked Machiko Kyo, the rape victim of Rashomon and mincing dispenser of love in Ugetsu, arrived in Manhattan for her first trip outside Japan, was given such a whirl of interviews, screenings, photographic sessions, business appointments and kimono changes (she was equipped with ten sets) that she had little time even for window shopping. At week's end she left for Hollywood to discuss MGM's prize offer: that she play the role of Lotus Blossom opposite Marlon Brando in the film version of Broadway's Teahouse of the August...
...colored citizens. The announcement merely split his own party. Quietly and remorsefully the Senate debated its own death sentence. One by one Senators rose to make their last speeches. Natal's Edward Brown seemed near to tears as he spoke his own political requiem: "This is a rape of the constitution. The country is at the mercy of the Nationalist Cabinet. It's no longer Volkswil [i.e., the will of the people] but Natswil." Then, slumping back into his seat, he said: "This is the last speech I shall make until the country returns to democracy...
...Everybody's Smoking . . ." Blandly ignoring his press clippings, Kefauver opened his easygoing hearings, heard Hollywood defended by its top men, explained sympathetically by two psychiatrists, attacked by only one witness, William Mooring, syndicated movie editor for some 50 Roman Catholic newspapers. Critic Mooring cited a murder-rape case directly inspired by a rape movie, listed eleven recent films as harmful to youthful morals, irrelevantly wound up by lambasting drive-in theaters for encouraging young couples to neck, or worse, in cars...