Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly called off the campaign. Reason: the folks at home have that neglected feeling, are wondering whether Charlie has been taking them for granted. Result: from now on, 13-termer Halleck will concentrate on wooing the Hoosiers in Indiana's Second Congressional District (which gave him a none too solid plurality of 6,000 in the 1958 elections), will bide his time until next July's Republican Convention, when he will be as available as ever...
...Federal government thus has a definite interest in birth control, despite the President's statement, "That's none of our business." The Planned Parenthood Federation points out that the government itself has provided money to seven Southern states for programs of birth control. In the interests of world stability, the government should extend this assistance to other nations...
...Fellow reactionary members of the Union Club--we have been found out. No longer can we blacklist democrats, labor leaders, and other unfortunates. Our current list includes twenty-seven Democrats (none of whom will contribute a nickel to Harvard), and one worthwhile fellow, a Republican...
...hills of the San Fernando Valley, hardly a bone's throw from some of the wealthiest Los Angeles suburbs, lies a brilliant green oasis of more than 300 acres, which at first glance seems to be a golf course. On closer examination, the oasis turns out to be none other than Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, the Versailles of cemeteries that Novelist Evelyn Waugh (The Loved One) celebrated as the supreme expression of the American Way of Death...
...judges from this film, proletarian life in Soviet Russia seems to be the same as working class life in the U.S. (At least in their movie version). There is none of the sordidness that is found in Italian and French realist movies. But simple creatures, who are happy or sad according to the external conditions of their lives aren't very extraordinary. This Russian attempt at a Paddy Chayevsky "slice of life" story is not very exciting...