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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blacks to determine the right of the deported Moslems to return to Ghana. For Nkrumah's government, portly Attorney General Geoffrey Bing (TIME, Sept. 30) argued that Ghana's Parliament has "absolute and complete power to legislate on any subject whatever," and no court may review any act not specifically forbidden by the constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: The Sovereignty of Law | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...tissues and "the monster" interfering, he sometimes had to pry his mouth open with a clothespin to get the cigar in. Even so, he enjoyed up to four a day. At one time, when he had heart trouble marked by anginal pain, he quit smoking and boasted of this "act of autotomy," but he stuck it out only 23 days. Disciple Sandor Ferenczi, a Hungarian analyst who was in the process of losing his own mind, offered to go to Vienna to psychoanalyze Freud out of his angina-which, Ferenczi was sure, was merely psychosomatic. Freud was touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Last Days of Freud | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Lena Horne, excellent in and by herself, does not act well enough to carry interest into the plot. She sings as well as ever, particularly in "Push The Button," a satirical comment on Manhattan (there's a little island on the Hudson. . .), "Ain't It The Truth," and "I Don't Think I'll End It All Today." She can ride one word onto several notes as perfectly as she can move her body provocatively. Unfortunately, she has trouble weaving in and out of a Jamaica accent, often waiting to lean into Caribbean pronunciation and rhythm until just before...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Jamaica | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

Hossein Nasr 4G, of Iran, will act as President of the Society, and Yusuf Ibish 2G, of Syria, will be Secretary. Elected as Treasurer and assistant Secretary respectively were Abdul Haye Shahban 4G, of Egypt, and Bakhtiyar Ali Khan '59, of Pakistan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Groups Hold Elections of Officers | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

...know all that. I'm not saying they're naturally inferior. I'm just sayin' they live different, they think different, they act different. They look different, too, but that's not it. A redhead looks different, but no kid over ten holds that against her. Maybe in the North that's all there is to it. Just black skin. Maybe that's why Northerners talk so much about tolerance. Maybe that's why a Northerner can't understand the South, because he's never known a Southern nigger...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Hayes-Bickford | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

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