Word: civil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More money "will inevitably lead to a very serious erosion of university control of university activities," the American Civil Liberties Union objected this week. Yet in a survey of scientific grants at Harvard, these fears of possible government domination seem unfounded...
Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...
MONSIGNOR FRANCESCO MORANO, 87, oldest of the new cardinals, but hale and lively-minded. A scholar with degrees in philosophy, theology, canon and civil law, physics and mathematics, he will almost certainly be one of the staff planning and preparing for the Ecumenical Council...
...gasped Major General Lew Wallace. "Did I set all this in motion?" In 1899, the hard-riding, hard-writing Civil War commander was already appalled by the smashing success of his first historical novel, Ben-Hur, which in 19 years had sold 400,000 copies. And that, though the general did not live to see it, was only the beginning. By 1920, a stage version of the general's work had been running 21 years, had been seen by 20 million fans, had grossed $10 million. In 1926, M-G-M turned it into the first of the cinemammoths...
Died. Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, 73, two-term (1934-38, 1942-45) President of Colombia, who pushed through a series of economic reforms, tried to mediate between Liberals and Conservatives in Colombia's bloody civil war but was forced into exile (1952) by Conservative mobs who burned his home; in London, where he was serving as ambassador after returning to favor...