Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Manhattan last week, Ring Jr. was on hand to represent the Hollywood Ten at a mass meeting scheduled by the Communist-run Civil Rights Congress to protest the treatment of "political prisoners" (including the eleven Communist leaders). Then the Korean war started. With the flick of a handbill, the Civil Rights Congress switched the meeting to a "Hands Off Korea" rally. Nobody seemed to mind...
...felt it was worth it, 32-year-old Alice Fox paid a $25 fine in Waterbury police court for breaching the peace. But she wasn't to get off that easily. Katherine Rollo, who had to spend six days in the hospital from the kicking, filed a civil damages suit and won a $1,200 judgment from her neighbor. She refused to accept payment of $2 a week: she wasn't going to wait any ½ years to collect, she said...
...Iran's troops. To help him solve some of Iran's other pressing problems, the U.S. last week sent to Teheran a new ambassador, Henry F. Grady, who learned a lot about rehabilitating distressed nations during his years (1948-50) as ambassador to Greece during the civil war in that country...
...didn't see it that way The circuit court ordered Giannini and Husbands to appear this week to show cause why they should not be held in civil and criminal contempt. It looked as if Transamerica's efforts to wriggle out of its antitrust troubles might have entangled it more deeply than ever...
...jumpable ditch might pop up in the next chapter. Inspiration, he was always the first to insist, had nothing to do with it. He got up every morning at 5:30 and wrote with calm assurance until breakfast, after which he took up his duties as a hard-working civil servant in the Post Office. When he had written enough for one book, he simply wrapped up the loose ends as best he could, reached for another sheet of paper and began the next. But in Orley Farm, the plot of which was so dear to his heart, he seems...