Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kids were to learn about this law," he worried, "I can see what would happen. The kid would come in and say, 'Pop. gimme a dime.' Pop says no. So the kid replies: 'You better, or it's going to cost you two hundred and fifty bucks...
...bitter racial climate of South Africa, Cape Town (pop. 385,000) is an island of tolerance. In the city's buses white and black ride together. There is no segregation at city hall concerts or at public libraries. Of the 45 city councilmen, six are nonwhite. Last year, at the direction of Nationalist Prime Minister Strydom, the provincial government passed a law giving the local governor power to impose apartheid on reluctant urban communities and bill them for its cost. Cape Town ignored the ordinance...
After six years of provisional government, the Republic of Indonesia (pop. 80 million) got around to holding a general election last September. Five months later the ballots, from jungle villages and distant islands, were counted. Of the 172 parties contending for the 260 seats in the new Parliament, two finished in a dead heat: the Nationalists and Masjumi (Moslem) Parties, each with 57 seats. In fourth place, with a surprising 39 seats, were the Communists...
John DeTar's two-fisted approach has helped make him the family doctor's leading booster and a national figure in U.S. medicine. When he arrived in Milan (pop. 3,900) just out of internship at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he planned to return soon to the city and specialize in the growing field of pediatrics. But DeTar and his family (two sons, two daughters) found Milan pleasant and friendly, decided to stay...
Motor traffic in U.S cities is rapidly going automatic, with electronic computers presiding over its flow. Latest system to go into operation is at Atlanta (pop. 470,000), where Ponce de Leon Avenue has a new-type, all-seeing Big Brother to do the thinking for its traffic cops...