Word: junes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the 7½-year rule of Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, the U.S. Post Office Department has become a sort of latter-day Watch and Ward Society. As part of an all-out antismut crusade, Summerfield tried to ban Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mails (TIME, June 22), succeeded only in helping that tired old novel to the top of the bestseller list. Last week Summerfield's men were wrestling with another lady, Francisco Goya's masterpiece, The Naked Maja...
...methods were, Nkrumah still had one powerful voice to silence. He turned the heat on Oxford-educated Kofi Busia, 46, head of the opposition United Party. In his efforts to undermine Busia, Nkrumah managed to get Busia's brother deposed as the Paramount Chief of Wenchi, and last June had himself installed as the yeferiheni (head) of the Wenchi royal family. Finally, Nkrumah got his chance to eliminate Busia himself when the opposition leader announced that he was leaving for a lecture tour of Europe. The government broadly hinted that if Busia ever came back, he might be thrown...
...Last June, a well-fabricated girl named Madelyn Darrow, 24, better known to the sudsy electorate (22 million votes cast last year) as Miss Rheingold of 1958, wandered onto the courts of the Los Angeles Tennis Club hoping to pick up some pointers on the game. Last week it developed that Madelyn had not only improved her racket technique but had also picked up her teacher. Her fiancée: famed Tennistar Pancho Gonzales, 31, who will marry her as soon as his California divorce is final in December...
INDIVIDUAL SAVINGS will rise to $300 billion by early 1960, from $288.5 billion at end of last June. Long-term savings in life insurance, banks and Government bonds now average $5,500 for each U.S. household, v. $4,000 in 1950, only...
...religion is formally removed from the College sphere, a crucial problem arises: namely, the moral education of the student. Among those most actively concerned with the implications of secularism at Harvard is President Pusey, who last June devoted his Baccalaureate address to the subject of moral philosophy at Harvard. Describing the history of this subject in American colleges and particularly at Harvard, he went on to discuss the position of moral concerns in the contemporary college...