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Canada's funny-money Social Credit Party, which was elected in the province of Alberta in the hungry '30s on a promise to pay "dividends" to all citizens, got ready at last to hand out the cash. Premier Ernest Manning's government last week set aside $11 million, about one-third of the revenue it will receive this year from the province's oil and gas boom, for direct distribution to the people of Alberta. Shares this year will amount to about $22 for every adult Canadian citizen with five years' continuous residence...
Virtue & Pornography. The producer of Vienna's Annie, Austrian-born U.S. Citizen Marcel Prawy, had already successfully staged Kiss Me, Kate in Vienna (TIME, March 5, 1956). His announcement that he was bringing Annie Oakley and the Wild West to the Danube shore outraged critics. They rushed fiercely to defend the virtue of their Merry Widows, the dignity of their Countess Maritzas and the artistic solvency of their Gypsy Barons. American musicals, said critics, were "pornographic" and not fit for "Kulturstaaten." Furthermore, the government-subsidized Volksoper should be playing native Austrian composers. (Annie's defenders pointed out that...
What's wrong-and what's right-with the U.S.'s foreign-aid program? To get a cold-eyed answer to this $4.7 billion question that is already vexing Congress, President Eisenhower last September named seven eminent men as "Citizen Advisers on the Mutual Security Program." With Benjamin F. Fairless, ex-chairman...
...average Yankee just cannot know and will not believe what the average Negro in his own environment will do to himself and his neighbors when he feels like going on a tear-nor how often he goes. The average Negro is treated as a second-class citizen because he is a second-class citizen...
Good & Dead. "When local whites criticize the South for racial segregation," asks Rowan, "is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?" Rowan says he found "almost no citizen who will say directly that he considers the Indian racially inferior, or inherently a loafer or a drunkard." Yet the director of an Indian hospital at White Earth, Minn. told him: "The feeling in some communities is that the only good Indians are dead Indians." In many areas Indians are denied admission to hospitals, refused police protection, turned down when they apply for social-welfare...