Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this mood, agreement came easily. The half brothers decided that the fighting (such as it had been) should stop. The Communist districts would rejoin the rest of the little country (pop. 1,400,000), the Communist leaders would eventually join the Nationalist government in a sort of coalition, and the Communist Pathet Lao army would merge into the regular Laotian army. Eventually, the strength of the Communist infiltration would be tested in "nationwide general elections," after a period in which "the Royal Government must recognize and guarantee the right to carry on legitimate activities throughout the country for a patriotic...
...Southern University (enrollment: 3,000), told, in an 18-month study of his fellow Negroes' earning power and buying habits, how close the Southern city Negro has moved toward economic equality with whites. While his log-page report is confined to the South's largest city, Houston (pop. 725,000), it is a good indication of the Negro's material advances throughout the Southland...
...thought that he could find a cheaper way. Last week Jack Kaplan, president of Welch Grape Juice Co., launched an experimental tabloid that may well blaze a trail for men who want to start small-town newspapers on comparatively small capital. He began publishing his paper in Middletown, N.Y. (pop. 22,586), pitting it against the well-established, conventional Times-Herald, which is owned by another newspaper experimenter, Ralph Ingersoll, founder and publisher of Manhattan's late pinko daily, PM. Proprietor Ingersoll's Times-Herald, which has none of the journalistic or political extremism...
Problem Drinker. In San Francisco, after a doctor got her tongue unstuck from a pop bottle, nine-year-old Kathleen Owens asked for the bottle, explained: "It isn't empty and I'm still thirsty...
...accorded Lovey by the town, and eviction from the cemetery's marble orchard which, blind, she has been allowed to make her private playground. Back to sight means back to schools and parties, and the shrill anonymity of being just another girl growing up in New Hoosic, la. (pop...