Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba had been waiting for just such straight talk. Diario sold out all over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...
...ageless beauty, who made her first film in 1925. Since then the gradual path of feminine emancipation has paralleled Mexico's growing industrial boom. As new jobs were created, parents began giving daughters the education necessary to fill them. In 1953, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines gave women the vote. The women have taken it from there...
Today nine women are serving in Congress, three as federal judges. Twelve of the government's 60 assistant prosecutors are women. The chief of the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Maria Cristina Salmoran de Tamayo, 36, has about 150 men working under her-including her own husband. A woman, Maria Lavalle Urbina, runs the federal prison and parole board; Francisca Dolores Valdes de Lanz Duret is president and manager of Mexico City's good grey daily, El Universal. In Mexico City alone there are more than 225 women lawyers; across the nation there are over...
Root of the Glueck system is indeed an actuarial method. After gathering elaborate statistics on thousands of criminals, the Gluecks have isolated key factors that tip off the future behavior of men, women or children with a criminal bent. Result: with the Gluecks' "prediction tables," judges, policemen and social workers have "a promising path through the dense forest of guesswork, hunch and vague speculation concerning theories of criminal behavior...
Ripe for Conversion? Kotsuji's conversion was an impressive milestone for the World Union. Although a small, offbeat Japanese sect believes that its members are remnants of Israel's lost tribes, there are only a few Jews in Japan; previous converts have been women who married Western Jews and accepted their husbands' religion out of familial loyalty...