Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...charged with embezzling $120,000 from police funds and with printing fake Communist leaflets to stuff in the pockets of dead student rioters. To show its loyalty to the new order, the Bank of Korea announced that Syngman Rhee's face would be removed from bank notes. One group of students filed formal charges against Rhee (and 161 former Cabinet ministers and Assemblymen) for "criminal irresponsibility" in rigging the constitution to keep himself in office. Alarmed, Acting President Huh Chung urged a slowdown in the purging, only to be accused by the press of "preserving a corrupt bureaucracy...
...Cornell team tried to assemble the most homogeneous group they could find, settled on 139 men, aged 22-32, who held low-rung executive jobs in a big corporation. Their type of work, income ($6,000-$10,000) and behavior patterns were much the same. They differed only in education: 55 were college graduates, 84 were high school only...
...group is within its rights to protest against a book, magazine or film, says Lacy, provided it limits itself to protesting and does not attempt coercion without due process of law, such as by boycott or the circulation of a blacklist under the "color of authority" provided by an attorney general or police official. Such extralegal activities inevitably open the door for doctrinal and political pressures: "The Legion of Decency warns against a film like Bette Davis' Storm Center because its heroine is a librarian who refuses to remove a Communist book from the shelves. Films like The Miracle...
Holy Trinity operates at a loss of about $300 a week, but much of this deficit is covered by the "Ecclesiastical Shakedown Society," a group founded in 1957 by Earl ("Hank") Shurmur, a Detroit TV cameraman. Hard drinking occasionally led Hank Shurmur to bed down at Holy Trinity, and after Father Kern "straightened him out," Shurmur began putting the bite on high-salaried executives all over the city for contributions. The society shook down $4,200 the first year, has already topped $3,000 so far in 1960. Members send materials and food, as well as money. One member contributed...
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 61, sometime newspaperman and author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno...