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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems rather large to the Senator from Illinois." Retorted Fulbright, dragging in the massive embezzlements uncovered in Illinois' Republican state administration in 1956: "I know Illinois is a poor little state. You steal this much out of your public treasury there, don't you, and you never miss it." Roared Douglas, with a biting reference to Fulbright's unbroken silence on the segregation issue in Little Rock: "I speak out against these things-and against some of the occurrences in the State of Arkansas...
...Syndicate, we are discontinuing our society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier's wife. Among other morsels, the columns reported that the Izmir city council had "volunteered" to pay a year's rent on a seaside apartment for the happy couple...
Stinger. In Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Perry Hand, 31, admitted that she had put lye in her husband's whisky, explained that she wanted to "make him quit drinking...
...Meridian, Miss., Bob Goodman was arrested for bigamy after being divorced by two wives on consecutive days and remarrying the first one the day after that...
...Maritime Administration last week awarded design-study contracts totaling $400,000 to General Electric Co. and Manhattan's George G. Sharp marine-engineering firm. The plan is to install a boiling-water reactor in a conventional T-5 tanker, now being built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. at Pascagoula, Miss. The Sharp company also is designing the first U.S. atomic passenger and cargo ship, the N.S. Savannah, for launching in 1960. The Government hopes that lessons learned in building the Savannah will make the power plant of the atomic tanker lighter and cheaper than that of the merchantman. While...