Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a Page One Houston Post story that got to the commercial core of the matter, Reporter John Davis, 35, wrote that "there is absolutely no control over pistol sales."* Reported Davis: "In a shopping tour of gunshops and pawnshops, one thing was apparent: all you need to buy a $29.50 pistol in Houston is $29.50." Backing up his story, the Post ran a three-column cut of a .32-cal. Harrington & Richardson revolver bought by Davis-and a pawnshop's receipt for $29.50. Newsman Davis was not even asked for identification, despite a seldom-enforced, awkwardly...
...went to work on reports that the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125.861 chapters; assets: $10 billion), once the strongholds of U.S. good-fellowship and male society, have suffered a disheartening drop in prestige and attendance. Himself a sometime member of the Masons' DeMolay. Reporter Kiewit core-sampled the fraternal orders in the Midwest, from Elks to Moose to Knights of Pythias. Taking off from the hub of Chicago, TIME queried eight other stringers and correspondents, found a story of a major shift in U.S. social patterns. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Apathy on Lodge Night...
...this is treatment which Neapolitans thought was reserved for strangers. Naples was shocked to the core last week to hear that Neapolitans had been doing something like this to each other-and in city hall, at that. On a muggy 99° evening, thousands swarmed about the 700-year-old hall shouting, "Clean up the mess!" Cops broke it up by arresting 30 of the demonstrators. Inside, Mayor Achille Lauro, millionaire shipowner and leader of the Popular Monarchist Party, insisted, "Our hands are clean, because we don't have to soil ourselves by stealing public money." No one accused...
...small core" of graduate students assisted by Summer School students will supervise the exams, the Registrar said. For their vigilance, head proctors will be paid $2 an hour and proctors $1.25 an hour...
Peronista Key. The key to the election lies with more than 2,000,000 onetime supporters of Peron who do not number themselves among the Peron-controlled hard core. If they yield to Frondizi's frantic wooing, he will gain control of the assembly and defeat constitutional reform, which will help him toward his eventual goal: the presidential office with all its powers intact. Hopefully for the Aramburu program, these voters have been drifting over to Frondizi in smaller numbers than he expected. On the other hand, if the halfhearted ex-Peronistas adopt the hard core's self...