Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar of self-righteous voices raised against the "horrors" going on in Cuba is being heard from one end to the other of the country. This outcry would have more validity if a similar outcry had reverberated for the past six years when the horrible torturing of people by the "government" of the unspeakable Batista, for no reason even rationalized, except to keep a dictator in power, was the order...
...evening's end Peter Orlovsky was in tears because his chum Ginsberg was getting so much attention. Gently, Ginsberg and Corso took Orlovsky back to their borrowed apartment, put him to sleep-or more properly, down on his pad. Then Ginsberg and a bearded friend hit the streets, walked till 6 a.m., talking about their mothers. It was all fried shoes. Like it means nothing. And this week they will do it all over again, by popular demand, at Columbia University in Manhattan...
...open seizure of power by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat last October has had in Thailand much the same revivifying effect as Ne Win's takeover in Burma. Sarit, who is not in the best of health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered the end of legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time not long...
...end of one week, Saris & Co. had received 12,000 letters. Last week ten high schools sent delegations to the U.S. embassy asking that letters be forwarded to Mamie Eisenhower. As the snowball grew, the U.S. Information Agency stepped flatfootedly into the picture. "Stripped of its emotionalism, distortion and heated charges," said the U.S.I.A., "this city's much publicized 'kissing incident' essentially becomes a question of the rehabilitation of two problem boys and their families." It quoted the vice president of the local N.A.A.C.P. as "not certain that the training school is not the best place...
Three days later Charles de Gaulle went on television for his first speech to the French people since he became President of the Fifth Republic. "A sterile struggle still drags on in Algeria." he said. "The war can lead only to useless misery. It must come to an end soon. Why not at once, in the honorable conditions that I have proposed...