Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels. But after only the second session, two doctors showed up at Castro's cell one night and signed a certificate stating that he was sick and couldn't attend the court sessions. He was held in solitary confinement for 76 days, then brought to a secret trial at Civil Hospital, with neither the press nor counsel permitted...
...Defense Education Act may appear harmless to many, the University's opposition to the loyalty oath involves much more than mere academic quibbling. The loyalty provisions now in the NDEA (Section 1001f) meet no clear and present security danger, but form instead a perilous restriction on academic autonomy and civil freedoms...
From Coon Rapids, Stevenson's trail led to Wisconsin, where he had agreed to speak to the nonpolitical Madison Chapter of the Civil War Round Table. Once more he walked confidently into the political limelight. Without much coaxing he agreed to attend a press conference and a meeting of the Dane County Democratic Club. When Stevenson strode into the Democratic meeting in the Park Hotel, Club President Elizabeth Tarkow shouted, "Let's really give him a welcome!" The place went wild. Old Stevenson buttons magically appeared, the old nostalgia flowed, and tears brimmed in Adlai's eyes...
...anyone who hasn't heard, Mr. Edmund Wilson is teaching at Harvard this year. He is lecturing on the literature of the Civil War. The Class meets at Longfellow Alumnae...
...Louis J. Hector, 43, most outspoken and independent thinker on the five-man Civil Aeronautics Board, resigned last week after 2½ years of taking strong objection to the board's performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector...