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Repeated reports of release of prisoners and abolition of concentration camps have come up this year, but no estimates of totals such as Berman obtained. He quoted Kudryavtsev as saying that two-thirds of the concentration, or labor, camps have already been liquidated.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berman Relates Soviet Claims About Prisoners | 5/16/1957 | See Source »

Gone with the Jury. It is on an issue developed by North Carolina's respected Democratic Senator Sam Ervin Jr., onetime judge on his state's Supreme Court, that the Southerners have built their first line of defense. As a member of a Judiciary subcommittee conducting hearings on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

As remedies, the Commission proposed imposition of a 50 percent income tax on convicted gamblers, mandatory prison terms for a second offense, and fingerprinting of arrested bookies. Unfortunately, the opposing minority report by two legislator members of the Commission bodes ill for the passage of these proposals, not to mention...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: Crimebusters | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

On the surface the plan marks a major rebuff for 52-year-old Mikhail Pervukhin, who only three months ago was appointed the U.S.S.R.'s chief economic planner. (Khrushchev's report failed to mention Pervukhin's name, but urged the abolition of his job.) As for Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Breaking It Up | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

The second problem in English 10 is that lecturers are dull. The problem is not the lecturers' fault. The problem is rather that very little can be done in fifty minutes of capsule generalization to enrich a "Major British Writer." Few canned opinions about books have much more appeal to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reform Wanted | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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