Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desertion is not an act calculated to win sympathy from senior officers. Neither, for that matter, is an attempt to blow up the nation's Premier and overthrow the government by armed rebellion. Thus when Alexandros Panaghoulis stood before Judge Panayotis Voughas in Athens Special Military Court, it seemed hardly surprising that the death sentence was pronounced. Greece's ruling colonels were proud of the fact that there had been no executions under the 19-month-old regime, but in this case there seemed ample reason for breaking precedent...
...finds McNally in fine comic and caustic fettle. Again a gagged victim is trussed up in a chair, this time a man. His captor (Joe Ponazecki) hopes to assassinate the President of the U.S. during a motorcade, and he wants a witness to his own sanity in committing the act. The stuff of madness has been crammed into this young would-be assassin's head, principally by avid newspaper reading and televiewing. He knows all about cabinet crises in Lebanon, but he doesn't know right from wrong. He hopes to resolve his baffled impotence with a high...
...before he could sweep in his chips, a loud drum roll echoed through the garish, tentlike concrete hall. He looked up at the high wire overhead to see one of the Flying Cavarettas flip over three times in the air and land in the arms of her brother. The act distracted him just long enough for the dice shooter to roll a crap three, wiping out the gambler's winnings. He collected his remaining chips, glared at a cavorting clown, shouldered past a lady stilt walker and stalked out of the casino...
...meaning the state cannot compel a person to produce documents and records relevant to his case. "It takes a heart more hemophilic than mine," says he, "to find cruelty" in a subpoena to require racketeers to produce their books. Yet the Supreme Court has barred just such an act under the self-incrimination clause...
...time when Roman Catholicism is rent by internal rebellion and dissent, the church could use some aid. The Shoes of the Fisherman makes a pompous offering-and in the act of genuflecting, falls on its face...