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Camillien Houde's Montreal (pop. 1,595,000) has changed, and no one has done more to change it than slight, studious-looking Mayor Drapeau. A political unknown, he shot to prominence as prosecutor (1950-53) in a probe of Montreal vice in the '40s, when gambling czars...
¶ Dorothy McCullough Lee, 55, of Portland, Ore., as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, to succeed onetime Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert, recently elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. Chosen mayor of Portland in 1948, Republican Lee displayed the kind of independence necessary for her new job: announcing...
Next, his police moved on the 500-odd opium dens in South Viet Nam, and in closing them down, undertook a campaign to rehabilitate some 20,000 addicts. Thousands of confiscated bamboo pipes-kindled by stacks of pornographic literature -were burned in Saigon's central marketplace, and antivice dragon...
Although India's constitution guarantees religious freedom, the political boss of Madhya Pradesh, 78-year-old Ravishanker Shukla, is crusading against the Christians. First he appointed a committee of five Hindus to smell out examples of Christian subversion and of conversion by force or fraud. The committee began combing...
The Phenix City Story (Allied Artists). Long before the Civil War, Phenix City, Ala.-its name was Lively in those days-was known as the Sodom of the South. By 1941 it had grown into a "Sin City" of more than 15,000 permanent residents, almost all of them employed...