Word: postal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently convicted in Greece for spying against his own country (TIME, Aug. 3). To the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev, Greece angrily protested the issuance of the stamp. But Moscow replied that it had no responsibility in the matter, since the stamp was issued by the "independent" postal authorities of the U.S.S.R. Not to be outdone, the Greek government last week issued two stamps bearing the image of another martyr: Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy, executed by Moscow's orders...
...POSTAL RATE HIKE on parcel post packages and other fourth class mail will go into effect...
...Lower Congo's Abako Party announced it would boycott the December vote rather than submit to the "slowness" of Brussels' timetable. Hoping to gain control of the rival Congolese National Movement, an ambitious politician named Patrice Lumumba increased the ante. Fiery Lumumba, a 33-year-old former postal clerk and convicted embezzler, cried, "Total independence NOW NOW NOW," at a Stanleyville meeting of his followers, many of them armed with spears and painted as if for battle. Police rushed in to arrest Lumumba, and his supporters fought back, touching off two days of rioting in which more than...
...film company appealed the decision. Last week, answering the suit, the Justice Department completely scuttled the Post Office Department's case by admitting that "the postal cards at issue are neither obscene, lewd, lascivious nor filthy." United Artists has only to go to court and ask that the case be thrown out-a request no judge could deny...
...About Mutuals. The boom in stock ownership in Britain was reflected in many a nation around the world, showed a profound change in the savings habits of people with small incomes. Before, if they saved at all, they put their money under the mattress, or in government securities or postal savings. Today, millions who once looked on stock ownership as the pastime of the rich, and stock exchanges as sinister cabals against the common man, are eagerly investing in capitalism. One of the easiest ways, as in the U.S., is through mutual funds...