Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primitive by comparison, at least 10,000 youths are banded into 360 gangs. Members are mostly Chinese, though Malays, Sikhs, and Eurasians have lately joined. The young gangsters dress no differently from anyone else, but their shoulders or backs are tattooed with the signs of membership: a crucifix, a woman leaning against a palm tree, a kissing couple, an eagle clawing a snake. The biggest society, the "24," has 40 separate gangs; its chief rival, the "Zero Eight." numbers 30. Using the titles and ranks of the Chinese secret societies and tongs, the gangs have a "tiger general" who hands...
Death by Drowning. When the pathologist arrived he found a little water still standing in the crook of the dead woman's arm. That hardly tallied with the story of vigorous efforts to restore respiration. And there was no sign that Elizabeth Barlow had splashed or struggled. Death was due to drowning, but she had let herself drown in a relaxed, apathetic if not comatose state...
...back up his point, Tuttle, who is consultant to the teacher preparation and certification committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, has put together an album of educational horrors. Examples: a woman who for years has taught high school English in Pennsylvania had only 18 semester hours of English in college, got mournful Ds in all the courses; a teacher, major in physical education and science, took over an eighth-grade English class in an Ohio school, although she could not spell such a word as acknowledgment. "It is a frightening fact,"' Tuttle says, "that many English...
...Voluntary sterilization of husband or wife is justified when a woman's health is at stake-but never when a government makes it compulsory as a means of population control. But voluntary sterilization might be justified ("after the procreation of a proper number of children") as "a safe and easy method of family planning." One disadvantage of sterilization, the report warns, is that it is "generally an irreversible process" and may be regretted in changed circumstances. The bishops note with disapproval that sterilization operations are being increasingly sought and recommended "without any adequate appreciation of its gravity...
...subtle, fascinating story of Britain's ocean-going tugboat captains of World War II, and of the woman several of them loved; with Sophia Loren, William Holden, Trevor Howard (TIME, July...