wood cops on no charge except that of taking a walk. Hollywood cops frequently challenge anyone they find strolling around after dark. Young Douglas refused to identify himself. He felt he was within his rights to refuse to do so since the cops would not explain what they were looking for. He stuck by his guns and was released from custody the following a.m. ONE has always advised its readers if stopped to give only their name and nothing more unless specifically charged. But one attorney, well acquainted with questions of civil rights, has advised that one need not even give that. However, at all times one must observe complete politeness and firmness.

During the Cuban crisis aerial views locating MIG Jets and other Red planes on major Cuban airfields published in several newspapers around the country identified the American code names marked on the photographs: fishbeds, fagots, liaison, fruit set, etc. We wondered what to make of the strongly erotic cast of these names. One reader suggested that "This is a new type of depth motivation, like using the sexual instinct to promote a destructive joy"!! . . . .

NATIONAL INFORMER Worry Editor, Lowell Woods, speculates in a recent column on how spacemen will get their sex kicks on the Moon? It will be years before scientists train females for space travel with men. "The future men who travel and conquer space will probably be homosexuals," he writes. We know that space doctors are wondering about the sex drive of space men. Editor Woods continues, "Here is where homosexuality will come into play, doctors fear . . . . In spite of the healthy aptitudes for which

one

spacemen are chosen, homosexuality will take form as a means of relief of physical strain of not having a normal sex outlet. . The spaceman left to nature will run wild for there will be no fear in his mind of retaliation by officials for his unnatural act during the trip.

"Hundreds of doctors are thinking about the future homosexuals of space." Why Worry?

BLOCK THOSE DYKES

Noel I. Garde observes: "Readers of Time magazine's Cinema listings in the late summer were offered 'double-take' reviews of The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Quite as fascinating as the question of 'who did it and how did he ever get away with it?' is the drama of the mock-clean-ups in the wording. Here is how it wentAug. 31-Pas pour les enfants: a

story, adapted by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of loves on the AC-DC circuit.

Sept. 7-same, except adapted changed to updated.

Sept. 14-When a rake and a dyke fall in love with the same girl.

Sept. 21 Almost anything can happen, and practically everything does in Jean-Gabriel AlbiCoco's skillful but vicieuse version of a tale by Balzac. October 5-Jean-Gabriel Albicoc-

co's skillful and vicious (sic.) version of a tale by Balzac. October 12-A young French director named Jean-Gabriel Albicocco has turned Balzac's dated daydream of Sapphic sensuality into an updated, unregenerate nightmare.

(by October 26, The Girl With The Golden Eyes had disappeared from TIME, as had probably its original capsule-reviewer.)"

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