Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet Leave-Taking. State Attorney William D. Hopkins passionately asked the all-male, all-white jury for equal justice under law, regardless of race. "This law-enforcement proposition has got to be consistent if it's going to be successful." In his charge to the jury, Judge Walker ordered that the case be considered "without regard to race, color or creed...
...year of occupation rights in Berlin-provided they would reduce their forces in West Berlin to "symbolic" levels (about 50 from each nation), would liquidate all anti-Communist propaganda and espionage organizations in the city, and would agree, when the year was up, to accept an all-German committee (equal membership on both sides) to talk about "reunification." In a final burst of arrogance, Gromyko added that unless the West accepted these conditions, "the Soviet Union will not be willing to ... consent to continuation of the occupation regime in Berlin...
...British school of cosmology, which holds that matter is being created continuously in the form of hydrogen atoms appearing in empty space. Each hydrogen atom consists of one electron and one proton, and physicists have generally assumed that the positive electrical charge of the proton is exactly equal to the negative charge of the electron. Lyttleton and Bondi point out that this is only an assumption...
...third of the Soviet Union is officially closed to tourists (the U.S. has retaliated by keeping an equal area closed to Russians), but the traveling choice is still wide. The tourist can visit 27 Soviet cities on any of 45 Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma...
...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...