Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone buying a new Capitol 45-r.p.m. record titled Green Chri$tma$ can study these and other atrocities at yuletide leisure. Lyricist Stan Freberg is an adman himself, with an executive suite on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and a reputation for the cute commercial (TIME, Aug. 4).) But Freberg also had a solid Baptist upbringing (his minister father still has a church in Pasadena), and for years he has felt Christmas commercialism gnawing away at his religious vitals. "The funny thing is," he says, "that businessmen would sell as much soap or soft drinks at Christmas if they never...
...minute conversation between Hatfield and Neuberger was polite and pleasant. While Maurine Neuberger and pert mother-to-be Antoinette Hatfield discussed draperies, Hatfield and Neuberger retired to the study of the Senator's rambling, green Portland home, spread papers on a coffee table, reached agreement on an all-for-Oregon, nine-point agenda, e.g., if increase in the state gasoline tax to assure federal highway funds, a development corporation for the Columbia River...
Outgoing President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines lifted the ceremonial red-white-and-green sash of office from his shoulders, draped it on his successor, returned to his seat and retired from public life. López Mateos repeated the oath of office, which, in anticlerical Mexico, specifically excludes the usual "so help me God." "I promise to observe and uphold," he said, "the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws that derive from it. And if I fail, may the people call me to account...
...enticing. In San Cristóbal de las Casas, Erasto Urbina, once a barefoot peon on a southern coffee plantation, now runs a store that amply provides for his family of 8. Juan Carrasco, bellhop and car-parker at the capital's Continental Hilton, proudly drives his own green 1947 Plymouth...
Protestant preachers in Italy have their work cut out for them. The Italian constitution of 1948 gives them the green light: "All persons have the right freely to profess their own religious faith in any individual or collective form, to proselytize on its behalf and to perform in private and in public acts of worship, provided that the rites are not contrary to public morals."* But mayors and police chiefs seem to prefer the earlier Fascist police laws of 1929 and 1930, under which non-Catholic places of worship must have permits from local authorities and non-Catholic pastors...