will take a turn for the better. I shall endeavour to submit to you more satisfactory statistical terial next year." What price progress?

BERLIN: A decision by Berlin region Court of Appeal barred issuance of driving licences to persons convicted of sexual offenses, unless they behave blamelessly for prolonged period following release from prison and thus prove change of heart. The decision referred to case of man sentenced several times for offenses against boys. President of Police had declared him "unfit to drive and declined to issue licence. (ICSE PRESS).

40-year-old head of a Scottish naval electronics research team says he's changing sex, but will keep job and continue to live with wife, 'as sister."' Wearing women's clothes, he told news conference, he'll continue to dress as man at work but will spend rest of his life as woman. His wife, 2 teenage sons and young daughter and the superintendent of admiralty research establishment were with him at news conference, and approved his action. Wearing green coat, rer! hi-heels, nylons, makeup, etc., Little said, "My biological and psychological systems began to change and about ten months ago I began to go out with my wife dressed as a woman. At the present time I am still physically a man, and it will be two years before I know which course nature will take. I have every desire to be a woman, I even object to being called Mr. Little." His wife said she'd undergone great strain "watching my husband, despite himself, become more and more a woman every week. But my husband and I think there will be more benefits for the children if the home is not broken."

Speaking to international fashion

experts, Pope Pius recently said clothes should be fashioned modestly so as not to lead to sin, whether by excess of immodesty or luxury. Church does not condemn fashion when it "is intended for the correct and decorous adornment of the body." Paris meanwhile was busy decking out male form as gayly as female

Complete with jewelled earrings, rose-decked black hat, flowered dress and fur, "Lady Margaret" was introduced in local Vicar's absence and opened Church bazaar with speach "like a caricature of all the gushing women who ever opened Church bazaars." But Lady Margaret, who at one point lifted her skirt to get a hankie, was no lady. "She" was the vicar, 40-yearold bachelor, Rev. Pat Magee of Kingston, Surrey, and a governor of Tiffin Boys' Grammar School. A week later, one schoolmaster's wife protested: "In this unworthy role he has contradicted the Bible truth and lowered his dignity." The bishop of Kingston seemed less upset: "It sounds like a typical Cambridge rag stunt and Mr. Magee is a Cambridge man. I certainly don't disapprove of it" Mr. Magee was not available for comment when the newsmen arrived . .

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What cops won't do to make a pinch! To trap 4 warehouse heisters in Brooklyn, officer Paul Reiley donned babushka and woman's coat and "flung himself into officer Pat Kelly's arms." While Reiley was "patiently enduring the advances of his partner," as the DAILY NEWS put it, 2 other cops disguished as bleery bums lounged nearby while burglars carried on. At opportune moment, the drag was dropped continued page 18