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...jury deliberated 77 minutes. Despite the prosecution's plea for stiff sentences to show "that there are still laws in France and still men in Troyes," the verdict was mild: 20 years for Manoury, 15 each for De Villemandy, Rouviere and Belvisi, and ten for Barbance. Said Tixier: "Damiens helped us very much indeed...
More on the Cuff. "Things are pretty good around here," smiles Kansas City A.F.L.-C.I.O. Leader William Lewis. "You can see it mostly in the way the working stiff is spending his money-money he hasn't even earned yet but feels confident he will." Opening new charge accounts, shoppers last week queued up in four separate lines in the credit department at Montgomery Ward's in Kansas City, and the picture was much the same in other department stores around the country. Consumer installment credit, up $2 billion for the year, swelled to a record total...
Swedes practice nudism with erotic grace, the French with gay abandon; British nudists even manage to shed the stiff upper lip. Among West Germans, unzipping has become a solemn Teutonic cult whose practitioners rarely even wear a smile. Banned by the Nazis as "one of the greatest dangers to German morality and culture.'' nudism has enjoyed a spectacular boom since the end of World War II. As prosperous Germans have been able to afford more and better clothes, they yearned all the more to take them off-except, of course, in austerely Communist East Germany, where even collective...
This summer Rinker & Co. set up "institutes" at 20 universities from Cornell to California, gave 900 teachers a stiff dose of everything from satire to syntax. Supposedly the nation's best English teachers, they are expected to go home as "germ carriers" after a graduate-level summer tour of literature, linguistics and composition. Rinker is pleased-but not nearly as pleased as he hoped...
...interpretations of the tales, though amusing, incline to be cute and design to be sentimental. And the Cinerama process, still full of half-squashed bugs, presents at least one insoluble problem: a moviegoer watching a screen the size of a tennis court can quite readily get a stiff neck from trying to follow the conversational ball...