Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ousted. To Ottawans, it was plain that Editor (and Rotary Club President) Hames had been fired over the hospital issue. Packing into Ottawa's Heinz Café, a committee of 61 business and professional leaders held two protest meetings to urge Hames's reinstatement. Said one committee member: "If Herb Hames is fired, freedom of the press is dead in Ottawa." When the Republican-Times lamely announced the editor's "severance in the near future," Ottawa's Protestant Ministerial Association expressed to the publishers its support of Roman Catholic Hames. Said the resolution: "We feel that...
...smoke-filled cellar cafés and cold-water flats of San Francisco's waterfront and Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the word these days is "beat." Patriarch and prophet of what he calls "the beat generation" is a 35-year-old writer named Jack Kerouac, whose recent novel On the Road (TIME, Sept. 16) chronicled the cross-country adventures in cars, bars and beds of a bunch of fancy-talking young bums. Last week, in newspaper interviews with TV's Mike Wallace, Novelist Kerouac and equally beat Poet Philip Lamantia explained that beatness is really a religious...
...surgical knife we must cut out this sore from the body politic." "I built Rome; with Rome I stand or fall," Vaselli growled, and refused to leave his 250-room Piazza del Popolo palace (a floor apiece for his three sons, the ground floor thriftily let to a popular café, where the intelligentsia met to debate socializing wealth). Instead, he used his depreciating lire to buy apartments and land from fellow capitalists who lacked nerve and fore sight to bet their wealth against the Reds, and emerged richer than ever...
...advantage." Camera and mike captured some exciting scenes: a cop firing a tear-gas gun at a revolver-armed bandit; globs of gas routing the drunk desperadoes; a bandit's meek surrender; the collapse of the woman hostage; the recovery of the stolen cash; and interviews with the café owner, a police official and one of the hostages. KTTViewers. who Welsh claims "automatically tuned us in because we're known as specialists in special events," were even treated to a brief interview with the hoods. As he came out of the café, a shoddy silk stocking...
...live at home. But the rest must find squalid attic rooms, often without running water and usually with an exorbitant rent of as much as $80 a month. "Many students," says Secretary Jacques Bertherat of the students' federation, "are forced to do their reading and writing in cafés and bistros, which at least provide some warmth during the winter months...