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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung gingerly suggested that chaos might not inevitably follow female suffrage since "the character of the Swiss woman does not point to extravagance...
Denigrated Ladies. Based upon the Wolfenden Report published 18 months ago (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957), Butler's 600-word bill covers prostitutes and the pimps who live on their earnings, has nothing to say about the other subject raised by Wolfenden: the prevalence of homosexuality. The maximum ?2 ($5.60) fine for prostitution, which has been on the books since 1840, would now be increased to ?25 and three months in jail, and no longer would a cop have to prove that the girls were "annoying" anyone...
...embarrassing "gift" (since 1947 the U.S. has showered a whopping $1.75 billion on India in gifts, loans and credits). Furthermore, at cost to its own steel industry, the Soviet Union has been sending India its top talent. "They have to be our best men," said one Russian. "You can say it is a matter of face. But we want this plant to work...
...Communists have guaranteed all the equipment they have sent, and they have trained 370 Indians in Russian mills. Soviet experts are under strict orders to let trainees handle as much machinery and press as many buttons as they wish. This does wonders for the confidence of young engineers, who say that in German factories they are treated like sightseers...
Some hopeful observers, far from the scene, thought that both sides were just getting in good bargaining position for peace talks, and would shortly have something to say...