Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alaska statehood bill. (Southerners still suspect that any new Democratic Senators from Alaska may vote against them in civil rights.) The Republicans are for statehood, thanks partly to the popularity of Alaska's energetic young (38) Republican Governor Mike Stepovich, and the prospect that Alaskan Senators might turn out to be Republican after all. Informal polls in both House and Senate show that the Alaska statehood votes are in the majority. The balmy territory of Hawaii, once considered the hottest prospect for statehood, will probably be left out in the cold this session...
...pieces in her refrigerator; she got a life sentence. Says Houston Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman, who in one year defended 13 women charged with murdering their husbands, got twelve off free and the 13th a five-year suspended sentence: "I like to defend women in murder cases. Juries will turn a woman loose on evidence that they'd convict...
...challenged almost everywhere in Indonesia except in Java, and that it has never been invested by Parliament. Said one Padang official: "We fought for a country based on Pantja Sila [the Five Principles of belief in God, nationalism, humanitarianism, social justice and democracy]. Did we do this just to turn the country over to Communists as they are doing in Djakarta...
...order of President Fulgencio Batista, Cuba prepared this week to take a turn toward democracy. The suspensions of constitutional guarantees that have deprived Cubans of freedom of speech, press, assembly and habeas corpus for virtually the entire 14 months of Fidel Castro's rebellion lapse this week, and Batista's Cabinet announced they would not be reimposed. Instead, all Cuba except rebel-ridden Oriente province is to retrieve its freedom, and even Oriente will recover one constitutional right-free assembly...
Jacoba ("Joke") Haanschoten, 5, a child of a Putten factory worker, had enlarged and infected adenoids that threatened to block a Eustachian tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx...