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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only authority is the cocky rebel army. "There is no trouble here, señor," said Lieut. Ramón Pérez, 32, commander of a tiny highway garrison called El Cobre, rousing himself from his afternoon siesta. Pérez' men had manned a .30-cal. machine gun on the guardhouse roof, and they stopped and searched all passing trucks. "If anybody we stop does not have identification-prisoner!" grinned Pérez. Off duty, the bearded, long-haired soldiers lounge about reading the leftist official army organ. Olive Green. Slogan: "The army is the people...
...time to a "legally qualified candidate for any public office" has to grant equal time to his rivals. The same ridiculous law, now under attack by Ike as well as radio and TV stations, bars the station from "censorship" of what candidates say. Back in 1956, WDAY in Fargo, N. Dak. granted equal time to A. C. Townley, independent candidate for U.S. Senator (he lost), and a farmer association attacked in Townley's speech sued WDAY for damages. Ruled the Court, 5 to 4: since WDAY was only doing what federal law said...
...Burma, brothels have been shut down in the capital city of Rangoon and only survive in dingy hideouts in the suburbs. There is a public outcry from conservative Burmese (echoed by the opportunistic pro-Communist press) against such Western innovations as rock 'n' roll ("dance of mad persons with chronic diarrhea"). Western ballroom dancing ( "couple-rubbing exhibitions" ) and beauty contests ("degradation of Burmese womanhood"). Last month the government destroyed opium crops in a northern district, warned that other opium growers in the Kachin and Shan states would be the next to suffer...
...than the subject warrants, but the pace seldom slackens-thanks to the competence of Director Otto Preminger. The actors-particularly Stewart and Remick-handle themselves like the glossy professionals they are; but a number of important scenes are grandly swiped by that slick old (68) amateur, Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge almost as memorably as he played himself on TV during his historic fracas with the late Senator McCarthy...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Rebroadcast of Trial at Nürnberg, narrated by Walter Cronkite...