Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Established by Congress in 1957, a six-man Civil Rights Commission*has been in and out of the headlines since it conducted hard-hitting investigations in both North and South of violations of U.S. constitutional rights. This week, as Congress debated extending its life, the commission submitted a report that made it as hot an issue as civil rights itself. Chief finding: the nation is still a long way from doing right by its minorities...
...ideal set forth in the Declaration of Independence"), the commission recommended strong new federal action. Items: ¶ A federal law requiring states to preserve registration records for five years, during which they would be subject to public inspection; states have a right to determine voting qualifications, the report said, but the right "is not unlimited."¶ An amendment to the Civil Rights Act forbidding any election official to discriminate by failure to carry out a public duty, e.g., resigning from office to avoid accepting registrations, and a recommendation that would empower the commission to apply directly to federal courts...
...tenth of their value (though smaller bills were not changed); 90% of every bank deposit over 25,000 rupiahs was frozen, so that the money could be seized for obligatory long-term loans to the government, and banks were closed for two days to straighten out their accounts and report to the government. A new exchange rate of 45 rupiahs to the dollar was proclaimed. All this was done to the accompaniment of denunciations by Sukarno of "vulture capitalists." Added he: "Whoever scoops up wealth at the expense of the public, whoever disrupts the public economy, will be arrested, will...
...dictators toppled in the past two years, the U.S. attitude shifted. By the time Vice President Nixon flew back from last year's Caracas stoning, he openly advocated nothing more than a cool, correct handshake for dictators. Milton Eisenhower made the recommendation even stronger in his report to his brother after a swing through Central America in mid-1958. "We have made some honest mistakes with dictators," said Milton. "For example, we decorated several of them. Whatever reason impelled us to take those actions, I think, in retrospect, we were wrong...
Armstrong by Request (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The sort of rerun that can hardly be seen too often: an object lesson in the perils that beset the average consumer from supermarket to sidewalk grifter. The White Collar Bandit is a true-life report from the files of Manhattan's Better Business Bureau, redolent of assorted bunko artists, con men and garden-variety gyps...