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Hearts & Heads. While this commission, under the chairmanship of Sir Ernest Gowers, pondered the problem, traveling to many corners of the world in its search for facts, convicted killers went to the gallows, and one such case became a celebrated indictment of capital punishment. A young truck driver named Timothy Evans was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his 14-month-old daughter, largely on the testimony of one John Christie, who, Evans swore, was the real killer. Three years later Christie himself was hanged for another murder, and new evidence made it almost certain that...
...farm policy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Milton Eisenhower and a cherished McCarthy enemy, Harold Stassen, all came in for their share of criticism, but somehow the public and the press failed to sit up and take notice as they had done only a few months before. With his committee chairmanship gone in the Democratic victory in 1954 McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations; he has never been much disposed to provide newspaper copy for another man's headlines. On the legal front, he lost two important decisions in the acquittal of Corliss Lamont...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion sized him up as a valuable person to be traveling about the Middle East, buttonholed him at once to press his pet plan for Palestine peace-bilateral negotiations with Egypt's Nasser under U.N. chairmanship. Ben-Gurion is pushing this idea to avert mediation by Western powers, and particularly to keep out the British, whom the Israelis regard as pro-Arab. As in Cairo, Hammarskjold listened sympathetically, and would only say that he had now "got a fairly complete map" of the problems...
...Faculty Committee on Educational Policy also has changed its plans on issuing a report. Assigned last year to study the general problem of faculty reaction to expansion, the group, under the chairmanship of Dean Bundy, probably will not make a definite report in the near future to President Pusey. The material has been too complex for a conclusion to be reached at present, the high administrator said...
...sunnier Miami. When he returns to Uruguay, Batlle Berres will have less than three months more to serve as President. Then, under the country's Swiss-style, national-council form of government, the No. 2 man in last year's election, Alberto Zubiria, will take over the chairmanship (i.e., the presidency) for one year. But Batlle Berres, on the National Council, will still be well able to reap the benefits of his goodwill trip...