Word: second-class
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...year-old son to the Vienna conservatory. Two years later, Eddie returned to New York, but could not even sing up a good supper, let alone rent; at one point he was sleeping in Central Park. As a last resort, he joined up with a vocal quintet that played second-class movie and burlesque houses. To supplement their meager take, the members sometimes rented advertising space on the backs of their costumes; at the end of the act the quintet would about-face and reveal plugs for a local line of baby clothes or strawberry...
...Catholic clergy have taken a firm stand against government policy. More than anyone else, one man symbolized this opposition. He went into the slums to comfort black Africans hounded by the police. He threatened to close down his mission school for Africans rather than let the government impose a second-class curriculum. He became apartheid's most formidable adversary. Last week the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, provincial of the Anglican Community of the Resurrection in South Africa, was under orders to return to England in January to become novice master at his community's house in Yorkshire...
Though he started teaching at Caltech in 1927, Dr. Zwicky is a citizen of Switzerland, and he refuses to take out U.S. naturalization papers. Naturalized citizens of the U.S., he insists, are second-class citizens, subject to special rules, e.g., their citizenship can be taken away for various reasons, such as staying out of the country for more than two years. "I would apply for American citizenship tomorrow," says Zwicky, "if you did not have two classes of citizens. If I am more free as a Swiss, I stay Swiss...
...Hank" Greenspun has repeatedly called McCarthy "a secret Communist" and a "disreputable pervert." Reluctant to sue, and thus give currency to Green-spun's charges, but goaded to do something, McCarthy's office last year asked the Post Office Department whether the Sun should lose its second-class mailing privileges (TIME, April...
...would build H-bombs, Premier Edgar Faure announced almost casually that France would follow suit. "If things go on as they are," Faure explained, "there will be a line dividing great and powerful nations . . . that have thermonuclear means, and inferior countries. France cannot take a place among 'second-class' great powers." Faure's decision appealed to Frenchmen's pride, but it threatened to dig too deeply into their pockets. If France wants to join the H-bomb club, warned Faure's own Ministry of Finance, higher taxes will be needed to pay for nuclear spending...