Word: beginninges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swinging sticks (see above) or using their handcuffs as clubs (see below), the police chased women away, and rounded up resisters by the truckload. In one day alone last week, 128 women were found guilty of unlawful demonstration, fined $9 apiece (two weeks' wages) with the alternative of one...
The New Dealing afternoon New York Post (circ. 351,439) hemmed and hawed until five days before the election and then endorsed Democrat Averell Harriman for re-election as New York Governor. At that eleventh hour its minced-hearted editorial ("Whatever his failures and shortcomings . . . we favor Harriman's...
Angélique, already a U.S. bestseller, is an enormous fairy tale for adult children, of whom there are legions. The French eagerly took to Angélique as a serial in France-Soir. It ran for more than a year, time enough to catch a breath between one night...
After two weeks of disagreement and fruitless debate, the disarmament talks at Geneva have bogged down. The conference cannot be considered a failure, but signs of the political maneuvering which have characterized past conferences are beginning to reappear.
More than anything else, the 1958 elections showed that neither political party can count on blind following from the U.S. voter. Many a split ticket elected a Governor of one party and Senator of another in the same state. Result of the split ticket: the U.S. is in for more...