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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singer will be arraigned in Washington D.C. on the contempt charge. Trial is scheduled to begin late in January or early February. Furry himself has been charged for contempt by the Senate for his testimony before the McCarthy Senate committee, but a grand jury indictment has not yet been returned...
Villagers who might have watched the twentieth century pass by are now eagerly changing their feudal conditions. Farmers learn to plant rice in rows, rather than scatter it with no plan. Some villages begin cooperative stores and libraries...
Companion to the spreading idea of economic progress, of course, is a feeling of social unrest. For when people begin to move, caste barriers must crack. In one village, a high caste Brahman protested against a former untouchable's building a mud but on the adjacent plot of land. But the Development Commissioner, with a certain toughness in his voice, reminded the Brahman that untouchability was now unconstitutional...
Since the Eisenhower Administration took office in 1953, it has encountered one obstacle after another in its efforts toward freer trade with other nations. Last week, however, a whole series of developments made the slogan, "Trade, not aid," begin to ring a little truer...
...pink-coated Honey Craven, ringmaster, blew a fanfare on his long, thin trumpet. The stable owners in evening clothes, the teen-age girls who had come to show off their saddle horses, the grooms along the ringside, now all waited tensely for the real stars: the jumpers. About to begin as the competition for the President of Mexico Trophy, toughest of the international jumping events...