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...until I had a visual image to fix them in my memory. Even now, when I hear the word under by itself, I automatically picture myself getting under the cafeteria tables at school during an air-raid drill, a common occurrence on the East Coast in the early 1950s...
...World Bank, established by the World War II victors in the Bretton Woods Agreement, began operating in the Third World in the 1950s and currently works in more than 100 countries. One of its primary purposes is to provide loans to nations with struggling economies—a seemingly benevolent function—but conditions those loans on economic reforms that often have damaging effects. For example, loans sometimes call for decreases in government spending, which results in cuts to social services, for wage cuts in order to reduce inflation, for liberalized tariff restrictions to encourage foreign investment, for currency...
When I was a Senate Page boy long ago in the 1950s, my boss was Lyndon Johnson's young pet lizard, Bobby Baker. Senator Johnson would snap his fingers softly, and I would hustle to the cooler in the Democratic cloakroom to bring him a glass of White Rock sparkling water or dash down the marble back stairs to the Senate restaurant to fetch a dish of vanilla ice cream, which he ate at his desk on the Senate floor as he played his mighty legislative Wurlitzer...
...hard to believe, but as recently as 1974 individual scientists and their financial backers could decide for themselves what constituted ethical research. Most of the time their judgment was sound, but there were plenty of appalling exceptions. In the 1950s Army doctors gave LSD to soldiers without telling them what it was. In 1963 researchers injected prisoners and terminally ill patients with live cancer cells to test their immune responses; they were told only that it was a "skin test." In the 1950s mentally retarded children at Willowbrook, a state institution in New York, were deliberately infected with hepatitis...
...apparently dropped from the hotel's name at the government's insistence, so as not to "evoke the monarchy"). During the political storms that wracked the country before the communist takeover in 1975, Souvanna Phouma served twice, albeit briefly, as Prime Minister. He was also, in the late 1950s, Laos' ambassador to France...