Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Younger Generation. In Cambridge, Mass., jail officials asked a group of boisterous little boys to move on away from that street corner; they were keeping the prisoners awake nights...
Political Crisis. There was the chain reaction of political crisis. There was scarcely a political area on the map of Europe or Asia that was unthreatened within or without. In Korea, U.S.-Russian negotiations had broken down. India was in the throes of mass murder and fleeing populations. Persia, stiffened by promises of U.S. support, was resisting Russian demands. Greece (and the U.S. support of Greece) was confronted by the danger of a rival Greek Communist state, supported by Russia through her Balkan stooges. Almost anything might happen in Italy...
Stones Hurled. Bogotá students made the controversy an occasion for a mass meeting. There were cries of "Down with Yankee Imperialism," "Down with Truman." Then Communists and other U.S.-baiters led the crowd downtown to the U.S. Embassy. A U.S. truck parked outside was overturned, the Embassy was stoned. The mob moved on to Grace Line offices, smashed windows and furniture until police took over...
Agriculture now believes it has the situation under control. Its bee scientists fasten a virgin queen in a small tube and drug her with carbon dioxide. After a while she lays a mass of unfertilized eggs, which can develop only into drones (another odd bee characteristic). The bee men rear these parthenogenetic males to maturity. Then they use one of them to inseminate artificially the same, still-virgin queen. Thereafter her eggs are fertile and develop into females (workers or queens) fathered by her own fatherless...
Died. Katharine Smith Dos Passos, 51, wife of Novelist John Dos Passos and an author in her own right (The Private Adventure of Captain Shaw, in collaboration with Edith Shay) in an auto accident which cost her husband his right eye in Wareham, Mass...