Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paradox was accomplished by General Ne Win, 48, who resigned as Prime Minister and left the decision for the future up to the Assembly. He was quitting, Ne Win blandly explained, because the original six-month mandate given him by the Assembly last October was insufficient to restore law and order and prepare for national elections. After a decorous debate last week, all parties except the Red-lining National United Front agreed with Ne Win and amended the constitution to let the general resume power-and again prepare for elections. Target date: some time before...
...that it owns the mines and runs things, Bolivian labor toils hardly at all. Workers get a 13th month's pay as a holiday bonus, a 14th month's pay as profitsharing, full pay while striking, fixed weekly overtime whether worked or not, a law prohibiting firings and layoffs. Private employers must allocate a sum equal to 60% of their payroll to social security. Said a desperate glass manufacturer: 'I've offered many times to give my plant to the union...
...husband has become interested in another woman.'' When the five-minute colloquy in a Los Angeles court ended, the 3½-year marriage of Cineminx Debbie Reynolds and Crooner Eddie Fisher was over. Except for the property settlement and alimony. Eddie was free, although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom's price was high. Debbie kept: a Palm Springs ranch, seven life insurance policies, three bank accounts, a Lincoln, the family camping equipment, a Jeep equipped for uranium prospecting, title...
...weeks ago the Krals were in court in Stillwater, answering charges brought by School Superintendent Thomas Campbell that they are violating the state's compulsory school attendance law. The embattled parents proudly reported the texts Tommy uses (one of them is a McGuffey Reader, copyrighted in 1879). submitted test results showing that their pupil has progressed some two years ahead of his contemporaries. The prosecution refused to argue about curriculum, and later, School Superintendent Thomas Campbell's only remark was: "We feel we have a real fine elementary school program...
...Copacabana. Nine years later I was back there as the headliner. How do you bridge that gap emotionally?" Asked about his second marriage, to a white girl, he says stiffly that the race question docs not matter: "I don't want to be anybody's brother-in-law. I just want to be his brother...