Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Counsel Schwartz behaved as if accepting $100 honorariums was a crime ranking close to arson. He hectored Doerfer so unmercifully that the American Civil Liberties Union protested and the Washington Post and Times Herald, no friend of the Eisenhower Administration, rapped Schwartz's brass knuckles...
Nominated last week for a fourth term as New Orleans' mayor (and facing no Republican opposition in the April 8 general election): balding, bouncy Democrat deLesseps Story Morrison, 46, onetime boy wonder of Louisiana politics. During the campaign, Morrison's five primary opponents tilted at crime and police corruption, taunted the mayor as "a dictator," whipped up false fears over integration. Confident "Chep" Morrison calmly pointed to the glassy, classy $8,000,000 city hall he built, the miles of Morrison-paved streets, improved garbage collections, New Orleans' impressive new railroad terminal and the 30 buildings added...
...hotted up his country's current hassle over artificial insemination (TIME, Jan. 27). The Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the use of extramarital donors as a sin; not necessarily so, said Nonconformist Soper. "It's no good the church wanting to make it a sin or a crime; it is another piece of mechanism science has put in our hands to use wisely. I do not consider it sinful to give certain spinsters . . . artificial insemination so that they do not lose the opportunity of motherhood...
...managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into Kansas City. On the way a motorcycle escort kicked up such noise that an unidentified excitable citizen called a radio station, which soon broadcast that Nebraska Teen-Age Murderer Charles Starkweather (see Crime) was hightailing through town ahead of the cops...
...greater than our size would suggest." As proof, Banda cites the fact that the Buddhist scholar he sent to Moscow as Ceylon's first ambassador "is very much in demand at Moscow and other universities for lectures." The ambassador has just returned to reveal to his countrymen that crime no longer exists in the Soviet Union...