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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South ran the sight and sound, the pain and glory of historic sociological change. Where racism had been growing roots ever since the first slaves for the British colonies arrived in 1619, more Negro children began going to school in the same classrooms with white children. As is often the case in such moments of history, the worst and the best in man-hate and human charity, stupidity and wisdom-came out before the world...
...Neuberger favored the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Administration's budget requests, the civil rights bill. Fiery Wayne Morse opposed them all, testily told the folks back home that "Dick Neuberger was one of the Democratic liberals sucked in on the civil rights bill." Through the entire session, Neuberger more often than not sided with the Administration and Morse more often than not opposed...
...West End, prostitutes often demand ?5 for their favors but settle for ?3 ($8.40). Sir Ronald Howe, retired deputy commissioner of Metropolitan Police, estimates that many London prostitutes take in as much as ?60 ($168) a night-tax-free, of course. Postwar, London's prostitutes have become a menace as well as a nuisance. A young stenographer was disfigured for life recently when an irate harlot slapped her in the face with a heavy handbag under the mistaken impression that the girl was "working" her territory. Because prostitutes ply London's better streets so regularly, any woman sauntering...
Beset by absenteeism, inadequate production and hard drinking among Poland's low-paid workers, the Communist regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka first tried friendly persuasion. When that failed, the government last month fired 2,500 miners who had played hooky once too often. As an added penalty, it forbade the men to work again in the mines, where the pay, while not enough to live on, is nevertheless almost double the average of employees in other state industries. The regime proudly claimed last week that as a result of its action, production in the mines immediately went up and absenteeism...
Some back-home newspapers blasted the conference. "Fiasco!" snorted Brazil's Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. But reactions often combined realism with optimism. In Uruguay, the daily El Plata joked about the U.S. reluctance to go in for Latin American giveaways. "The U.S. knows only too well the similarity between Latin American economic administration and sacks with holes or barrels without bottoms." On vacation in Newport, President Eisenhower examined the conference's results, reflected most delegates' reactions by calling them "an outstanding statement of the principles and objectives of inter-American economic cooperation...