Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violence stems partly from the manner of Haiti's birth. While revolution tore France in 1791, half a million black slaves rose against France's colonial rule. In two months they massacred more than 2,000 whites, razed more than 1,000 plantations. Haiti never recovered. The world's richest colony before the revolution, it is now a poorhouse. Only 23,470 Haitians out of 3,500,000 engage in middle-class occupations. As the economy strangled, politics turned into a business venture, with revolution the key to the treasury...
...great and good friend (now wife) shock-haired Cinemactress Shelley Winters. "It would not have been seemly to have had my picture taken with Miss Winters. I was still married," Franciosa explained after the fracas. When the prosecutor demanded that he be jailed "for the protection of society," Franciosa rose with his chest heaving. Chewing each word as if it were scenery, he pounded the table and began emoting eight to the bar: "He is saying society has to be protected. This is ridiculous. I am society." Society's sentence: two years' probation, $250 fine, ten days...
...were anxiously wondering about a possible clue to their mysterious disease, which is marked by near-total loss of muscle control. (It happens when the myelin sheath, a fatty insulation around nerve pathways, degenerates for unknown reasons, thus short-circuiting nerve signals.) Philadelphia Bacteriologist Rose Ichelson, 59, reported success in cultivating an obscure microbe, Spirochaeta myelophthora, which she has found in the spinal fluid of MS victims. Inference: multiple sclerosis is caused by the spirochete, and early attack on it should lead to cure or alleviation...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME. April...
...strength of the market was based on the health of the economy. The Labor Department reported that employment in mid-May rose by 900,000 to 65.2 million employed. Unemployment, at 2,700,000, was holding stable at last year's level. New plants for new markets had already pushed the construction industry to a five-month total of $19.2 billion, 5% more than in record 1956. Private housing, down 17% so far this year, showed a sharp upturn to an annual rate of 990,000 new housing starts in May, leading hard-pressed builders to hope...