Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party in the National Assembly, so as to make the life of center parties, and of cabinets who depend on them, less uncomfortable. The real problem here, however, remains the size of the Communist vote in the country. Only persistent governmental action in such fields as education, housing, and social legislation has a chance of reducing this vote in the long...
Though the "Merlin law" offered the 2,500 inmates of Italy's 543 licensed houses the opportunity to enter "centers of social re-education," no one really believed that last week's shutdown would end prostitution in Italy. Even Deputy Merlin-who four months ago lost her campaign for re-election to Italy's Senate-concedes that most of the girls from the shuttered houses as well as the vast majority of the nation's 7,000 formerly licensed streetwalkers will simply join the vast army of clandestine prostitutes. Says blunt Angelina Merlin: "Thirty percent...
...makes a comfortable income as a society bridge teacher, is perhaps the slowest player in top-level bridge, infuriates opponents with long spells of fierce, immobile concentration. Suave, dapper New Yorker Crawford, 43, Main Line Philadelphian by origin (he claims to be the only bridge master in the Social Register), is fast and impatient, deliberately tries to confuse opponents by creating an impression of wildness while actually playing with hard logic. He has a habit of staring at opponents with what an old acquaintance calls "the coldest eyes in bridge." Captain of the U.S. team that lost the world championship...
Harry Golden, social critic, humorist, essayist and author of the leading nonfiction bestseller Only in America (World; $4). tactfully withdrew from the scheduled CBS-TV program on integration that brought him to Manhattan, and confessed that he was indeed an ex-convict. That done, Golden flew back to Charlotte, N.C. to pace his house with a cigar in one hand and a glass of beer in the other, and wonder what would happen when his friends and readers learned that he had served three years and eight months for mail fraud in the early...
Loss Is a Crime. Matsushita has few, if any, equals in vigorous defense of free enterprise. He once declared, to a leftist's assertion that profits are wrong, that a "minus profit [i.e., a business loss] is a social crime." Like his opposite members in the U.S., Matsushita worries about taxes, frets over government interference: "Business skill cannot be deployed effectively unless businessmen have 70% to 80% freedom. In Japan there is about 50% government interference...