Week of June 23, 1957
Ranchers and miners in Nevada claim nuclear tests are threatening the health of
their families and livestock. Ranchers as far away as 100 miles from test areas
claim increases in blindness, cancer and hair fallout of their livestock. Yet
another test was conducted this week from a hot air balloon.
Hurricane Audrey batters the Louisiana-Texas coast with 105 mph winds.
Reports say most of the homes in Lake Charles were damaged by winds.
Randolph Churchill
(45), only son of Sir Winston Churchill quits,
as a contributor to the Evening Standard newspaper in London.
Churchill said the Standard refused to publish a second article
defending wire tapping by British security agents. Denouncing
Churchill, the paper said “Mr. Churchill’s ideas on this issue are
misguided and in complete opposition to the mood at the British
Public.”
The chief of police morals squad in Cairo, Egypt held the widely popular music
and dance craze from America is a menace to public morals and ordered all
spots to ban it. Quipped one nightclub owner” “Imagine barring rock n’ roll but
allowing the belly dance’s wiggles.”
In front of a Senate committee, Bing Crosby describes
what he termed the musical “trash” now popular. A
commerce subcommittee is investigating allegations by
some song writers that BMI attempts to dictate pop music
tastes by determining what tunes shall be broadcast.
Crosby continued by declaring “a monopolistic trend in
music on the part of broadcasters is certainly apparent...
the state of this stuff is surely not accidental, attributable
to a radical change in public taste, nor due to a sudden
unanimous failure of talent among established song
writers... I think it is the result of pressure exerted by BMI.”
(BMI has all the rock ‘n’ roll music).
Readers Digest publishes “
The facts behind filter-tip cigarettes
” in its latest
issue. The article is the first of its kind, with research performed exclusively for
the magazine. One of the questions posed is “Do filter-tip cigarettes really
protect you against lung cancer?” In the same issue - “The perils of promiscuity”
and is described: “promiscuity is habit-forming and can make a shambles of a
boy’s entire adult life. Here is how parents can help a son to better appreciate its
dangers.”
