Word: third-class
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...ping themselves up against cushions on a great white mattress. The Congressmen's names were big names of the Gandhi days: Govind Ballabh Pant, Abul Kalam Azad, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar; the setting was Gandhian, in a tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third-class carriages. But they were painfully aware that India's Congress officials had since drifted away from the people; the old men on the mattress could detect a mounting outcry against Congress officialdom's growing flabbiness, its fondness for big houses and pomp. The old men were also...
Martyr. In San Francisco, Mailman Charles W. O'Brien, 62, charged with tearing up third-class "junk" mail (merely addressed to "occupant" or "boxholder") and then throwing it down a sewer, was let off with only a year's probation by Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman, who remarked: "Maybe he was performing a public service...
...Higher first, second-and third-class postal rates...
...Little by little, as circumstances changed a defeated enemy into a necessary ally, occupation authorities trimmed down special privileges. By 1952 it was no longer possible for U.S. Army personnel to get free servants (chargeable to West Germany as an occupation cost), or to ride first-class on a third-class railway ticket. But no amount of self-imposed limitations altered the fact that the Allied occupation troops were essentially immune to German...
Last week's "wolf boy" followed the familiar pattern of his ancestors. A mentally retarded child, who apparently had been partially paralyzed by a birth injury, he was found abandoned in a third-class railway coach in Lucknow. Doctors at the hospital where he was taken discovered he had two sets of upper incisors, hastily jumped to a series of unwarranted, nonmedical conclusions. The English-language Lucknow National Herald (est. circ. 10,000) heard about it, carried the first story reporting that the boy "seems to have been taken away to the jungle by jackals when just a small...