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...James Fitzgerald. On the CCA side, there are three former perennials parading behind the standard of respectability. Gaetan Aiello and Robert Horan, School Committee candidates, are at least one-time losers, and Witold Pladziewicz, owner of an East Cambridge meat market and a City Council candidate, shares the same stigma...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Elections Feature Bitterness, Comedy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same as changing the color of your nail polish. It doesn't have any more stigma than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Tinted Women | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...that it had its independence and was free of the stigma of imperial control, the newborn Federation of Malaya decided to try its own hand at bringing an end to the costly nine-year-old jungle war against Communist guerrillas. It issued a "new and final" amnesty offer to the 1,800 terrorists (down from 8,000) still left and, just to make sure everyone gets the message, will drop no less than 12 million leaflets from R.A.F. planes. Terms: no persecution of terrorists who surrender, regardless of their past crimes; restoration of civil rights to those who forswear Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Final Offer | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Stigma & Scorn. The Watkins case, wrote Warren, "rests upon fundamental principles of the power of the Congress and the limitations upon that power." The Chief Justice therefore delivered a professorial lecture on parliamentary history, ranging from the 17th century British inquiry involving Popish Plotmonger Titus Oates* ("the infamous rogue") through the historic lawgiving of Sir Edward Coke, James I's Lord Chief Justice, to the U.S. Senate investigation in 1859 of John Brown's seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Congress' Investigations | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...when those forced revelations concern matters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reaction in the life of the witness may be disastrous . . . Those who are identified by witnesses and thereby placed in the same glare of publicity are equally subject to public stigma, scorn and obloquy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Congress' Investigations | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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