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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between skirmishes with international disorder, Dwight Eisenhower this week sent Presidential Assistant Arthur Larson a "Dear Arthur" note that commits U.S. intellectual and organizational talents to a formidable task: developing the orderly processes of law as the main supports for peace and justice throughout the world...
State legislatures and city council chambers across the U.S. regularly ring with politicians' warnings against "increasing concentration of power in Washington." The truth is that the main power of government-to spend money-is being claimed by legislatures and city councils at breakdown rate. Since World War II the states have increased their spending 15 times faster than the Federal Government; .city governments have increased a hefty 18 times faster. In fiscal 1957 alone, reports U.S. Census Bureau after a year of figure collecting, cities upped total expenditures 13% to an awesome $12.8 billion. .By comparison, federal spending...
...time of the Hungarian revolt-that the strikers and students were being misled by agents provocateurs. The Communist weekly tabloid Blitz haltingly explained away police bru tality in Kerala by claiming that the police were "trained in a tradition of unbridled repression, of which Communists were the main target during the former feudal rule," and had not got over their old ways. The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party issued a 1,200-word resolution which concluded that the shooting down of the strikers at Quilon was "an unfortunate incident," and hinted that if things worsened, there would...
Concluded the delegates, in a final resolution that some observers called a new Magna Carta for African women: "We regret that in Africa marriage is considered a contract between two family groups rather than two people." Main calls to action: a complete end to prepuberty engagements, a change in the bride-buying custom to make the money only symbolic, suppression of polygamy, "which gravely prejudices the dignity and the rights of woman...
...bark County of Pembroke was running her easting down in the roaring forties off the Cape of Good Hope when she shipped a monstrous sea over the lee rail. Tailing onto the heavy rope of the main brace was a runty, down-cheeked lad of 16 named Jimmy Bisset. His feet swept from under him by the surge of boiling green water, he was washed overboard. His shouts were drowned in the roar of wind and sea. But he held onto the rope's end. And the next sea washed him back aboard. As Jimmy clutched the fife rail...