Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Down Payment. In Tulsa, Okla., because they needed the money, city officials swallowed their pride, cashed a taxpayer's check that read: "Pay to the order of the thieves of City Hall, $13.50 for water from a bunch of crooks...
Failure in Homework. But even as his successes were applauded, there was a growing Pentagon feeling that Neil McElroy was not doing his homework. He was impatient with briefings lasting more than 15 minutes, was hard put to read the reports that began piling up on his desk, made frequent trips to U.S. military installations around the world when he might better have spent more time in his office. Presenting the defense budget to Congress this year, he seemed distressingly unfamiliar with important details of one of the world's most complex jobs, made several inept slips...
Preparing for family summer travel, Britain's royal family sets a royal standard. Last week, on the eve of the farthest-ranging tour of Canada (44 days, 100 cities and towns, 15,000 miles) ever undertaken by a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip read plentifully about the personalities and places they will visit. The baggage was mostly packed and at sea aboard the royal yacht Britannia, and all that was left was to kiss the children goodbye. As part of a last weekend at home, Elizabeth rode out on her horse Imp to salute the Household Guards...
...Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
Last week, after 44-year-old Presbyterian McNeill had finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...