Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Communists won their first major electoral victory in the steaming southwestern Indian state of Kerala last March, but few politicians in New Delhi were inclined at the time to take the matter seriously. The Communists were behaving so correctly, and besides, as required by law they were careful to get the approval of New Delhi for most of the changes they wanted to make. Soon Britain's Manchester Guardian, reflecting the bemused judgments of Indian intellectuals, was talking euphorically of "constitutional Communism" in Kerala...
Hurricane Audrey, the season's first, was born as a Gulf of Mexico squall in a wide low-pressure area. As it blew north, U.S. weather bureaus warned the Gulf Coast that a dangerously violent storm was on the way. But the bayou people of extreme southwestern Louisiana felt secure in their swamp-girded isolation and their simple faiths ("I wasn't much afraid," said one woman, "because the Lord told us he would never destroy this earth with water again"). Many of them stayed in their homes-and Audrey killed them in a day of sheerest horror...
Clinton E. Jencks, Southwestern official of the Red-led Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, would probably be surprised if anyone seriously accused him of being a nonCommunist. But in 1950 Jencks signed a non-Communist affidavit under the Taft-Hartley law-and was duly indicted in El Paso, convicted of perjury and sentenced to five years in prison. Last week the Supreme Court granted a new trial to Defendant Jencks, and in so doing knocked over applecarts all across the U.S. security scene...
Another major public financing got started last week. In St. Louis, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s board voted to float $100 million in new debentures to help pay for its fiveyear, $1,125,000,000 expansion program. If stockholders and the Securities and Exchange Commission approve, the issue will...
Neither of the two is habit forming, however, and thus it is questionable whether they can be outlawed as narcotics. Similar drugs are used in the rites of certain tribes of Indians in Mexico and the southwestern United States. The cactus plants are reportedly available by mail from biological supply houses in that part of the country...