Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither myself nor my three teen-aged children have been guilty of the "crimes" Colonel Johnstone mentions, but I do not like living under the command of Hitler Jr. with his mass punishment...
...their talk about "people's democracy," the Communists seemed unable to cope with Gandhi-style passive resistance except by mass arrests, using guns and steel-tipped lathees. On four separate occasions, the police fired into crowds. They killed 15 people, slapped 10,000 Gandhi-style demonstrators in jail. Nor did the Communists help their cause when they openly applauded Red China's brutal invasion of Tibet...
...debate on whether a Roman Catholic should be President is rolling right along-as is Senator John F. Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. In the Methodist Church of Edgartown, Mass, last week, Bishop John Wesley Lord explained why the prospect of a Catholic President worries him. "While we hold to the principle of respect for every individual, whatever his race or religion, because of the unique claims that the Roman Catholic Church makes for itself, we have the right and duty to ask some questions of a presidential aspirant." He proceeded to ask five...
SEEK THE FAIR LAND, by Walter Mack-en (308 pp.; Macmlllan; $3.95), is a sort of western, too. although it is set in iyth century Ireland. A minority of English settlers were struggling with a cantankerous but unorganized mass of natives whose language, religion, law and customs were totally different from their own. This lively historical novel deals with the mid-century years when Oliver Cromwell, having beheaded King Charles I. marched into Ireland with his vengeful army to put a quietus to the Irish question...
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Lloyd Bridges rolls the Runyon dice as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls...