Word: assassine
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Four score and ten years ago, a gunman jumped onto the stage at Ford's Theater in Washington, and fled, to be hunted down as an assassin. Last week in the African nation founded by American freedmen, one Paul Dunbar cast himself in the role of John Wilkes Booth; he was not playacting...
...drives, they lived in Detroit's Knickerbocker Apartments, a nest of friendly, frenzied C.I.O. officials. "We hardly ever slept at all," Reuther remembers. Thugs once beat him up in his own apartment. Later he moved to the north side, where a gun blast fired by a would-be assassin ripped into his right arm. Reuther lost blood copiously but never lost consciousness. "I decided," he said later, "to fight harder than ever...
...paced by director Glen Goldberg, were a constant delight. Jo Linch as the nervous, be fuddled Mrs. Price demonstrated a fine talent for slapstick, especially in a very funny cigarette-lighting episode. Sheila Tobias, in tight black suit and trenchcoat, seemed perfectly cut out to play the sleek female assassin, and only Jordan Jelks, as the urbane Mr. Price, failed to enter the whacky spirit of the occasion. Mare Bragnoni, on the other hand, gave the best performance of all as the male assassin a lisping, bumbling misogynist who dispatches women for purely "humanitarian" reason...
...year is 1938; the place is Tokot, a town on the Northwest Frontier of India. Captain Carruthers, His Majesty's Resident, and British to the last hair of the tiny mustache on his stiff upper lip, steps up to a curtain behind which he thinks an assassin is hiding. "Why must you do it?" his wife cries. "Because I must," he replies firmly. His answer, in fact the whole picture, is a sort of swansong of the white man who is beginning to stagger under his burden...
Panama's National Assembly, sitting last week as the jury for a high state trial, by a vote of 45-8 found ex-President José Ramón Guizado, 55, guilty as an accomplice in the assassination of his predecessor, José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The conviction was largely based on a confession by erratic Lawyer Rubén Miró, who admitted machine-gunning Remón at Panama's race track (TIME, Jan. 24), and implicated Guizado, Remón's Vice President. Panama will next prosecute...