Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble was that the dead man, a George Vincent Nash, was an Indian, and White Chapel is "restricted to members of the Caucasian race." White Chapel officials insisted on sticking to the letter of the rule, even though Nash's wife, only part Indian, had been buried in the adjoining lot back in 1949. Sniffed E. Reed Hunt, president of a cemetery association that includes White Chapel: "If we made an exception in this case, some 40,000 plot owners would be able to take action against the cemetery because they paid for the restriction...
...longer was Bulganin in Caucasian exile as chairman of the obscure Stavropol Economic Council. He had been banished there for siding with Khrushchev's "antiparty" foes in the big 1957 leadership showdown. Even after he had made a groveling confession of his "mistakes" before the Moscow Central Committee late in 1958, the local zealots in Stavropol apparently kept calling him an enemy of the state. According to a story passed by the Moscow censors, Bulganin appealed to Khrushchev, who suggested that Bulganin retire on a pension. At 64, a pale shadow of the jovial, rotund figure who represented...