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...blocking the corridor so solidly that he could not get out to call the session to order. Kiyose called the police. On signal, 500 cops entered, picked up the Socialists and carried them kicking and struggling from Kiyose's door. The Speaker made a run for the chamber only to be met there by more angry Socialist Deputies, who grabbed him round the back and half-throttled him. Diet guards pulled him free and carried him half-fainting to his tall chair...
...witnesses, two-thirds of them newsmen, filed out to report that Caryl Chessman, sentenced to die twelve years ago for kidnaping for robbery with bodily harm, had kept his ninth appointment in San Quentin's gas chamber...
...Turkey was subsiding. Istanbul students who tried to stage new demonstrations against the ruling Democrats during the three-day NATO foreign ministers' meeting were thrown back by troops. The legislative "inquiry" into the opposition Republicans' "subversive and illegal" activities was already well under way in star-chamber secrecy. At midweek, students in Ankara began bandying about the rallying password "55 K" (translation: May 5 at 5 p.m. at Kizilay Square). The password reached the ears of the police, and the Menderes forces thought they saw an opportunity to organize a counter-demonstration to show the world that...
...Times went a letter from Birmingham's three city commissioners demanding speedy retraction and a public apology. A second letter came from Birmingham's Committee of 100, composed of businessmen who try to win new industry for their city, and the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce: they complained that the stories were "biased, warped, and misleading. The facts as adduced by Mr. Salisbury were either outright misstatements or, what is worse, half-truths...
Died. Dr. Felix Kersten, 61, Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler's personal physician ( "my magic Buddha"), who used his influence over his patient to save 3,000,000 Dutchmen from deportation to Polish Galicia and the Ukraine and 60,000 Jews from death in the gas chamber, moved to Sweden in 1943 and became a Swedish citizen ten years later; of a heart attack; in Hamm, Germany. Kersten was a movingly human figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives...