Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries the world over, the press struggles in the toils of one I form of oppression or another. Of course, in the Communist world, where press control is traditionally total, there is no perceptible struggle. But in freer countries there are subtler means of entrapment. There are the subsidized newspapers (and editors), the "guided" press, censorship, newsprint allocations, and more. All operate in the same direction-away from the people's right to know...
Usually these days, neo-Nazism takes the form of desecrating Jewish graves, chalking swastikas on walls or trying to break up performances of The Diary of Anne Frank. But Vienna police decided that a secret society of juvenile delinquents called Bundes Heimattreuer Jugend had bigger ambitions. Last week they raided the B.H.J., seized arms and explosives and uncovered plans to dynamite the Italian embassy as a means of aggravating the Austro-Italian dispute over South Tyrol ; the young thugs also planned to rough up delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival in July. Police arrested 18 members, including 27-year...
...colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed Judge Mahdawi was in sparkling form as he interrupted a witness...
Scattered Crowds. Ismet Inonu, 74, who succeeded Ataturk as President (1938-50) of Turkey, has another claim to Turkey's gratitude. Strongman Ataturk allowed an obedient opposition party to form, but it was Inonu who in 1950 ran fair elections and, losing them, surrendered office peaceably-the key moment in Turkey's transition from authoritarianism to democracy. Now old and deaf but still alert, he is leader of the Republican People's Party, in opposition to the ruling Democrats of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...devices, the most wasteful is that of setting "bogus," or "dead horse," which the International Typographical Union has been getting into contracts since 1871. In its broadest application, bogus compels a newspaper to employ workers to reset the advertisements that have been received and used in mat or plate form. The reset ad is worthless, often consigned at once to the composing-room hellbox for remelting. On the Washington Post and Times Herald, I.T.U. men last week were resetting ads that actually ran in 1957. The New York Times estimated that it dead-horsed 5,750,000 lines of display...