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From the moment that Israeli agents in Argentina flashed home the coded message 19 months ago, "The beast is in chains," there has been no doubt over the verdict in the case of Adolf Eichmann. Last week, as a chill rain fell on the deserted streets outside Jerusalem's Beit Haam (House of the People), the three Israeli judges returned to the courtroom in which, for four months, they heard 1,350,000 words of testimony. The crowd expected to hear first a detailed, legalistic defense of Israel's right to try Eichmann. Instead, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau...
Though no Western government, including that of Konrad Adenauer, supports nuclear armament of West Germany outside of NATO control, Touring Lecturer Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, cast a shrill chill over a Temple Israel audience in Long Beach, Calif., by proclaiming that the very thought of atomic weapons in German hands "terrifies me. Eighty per cent of West Germany's officials are ex-Nazis. They say none of them liked Hitler, but every day people go over to that now empty bunker [where der FÜhrer died] and stand . . ." Unnoted by Mrs. Roosevelt was the fact that Hitler...
...Communist China, it is girl-loves-bucket. Gushed a Red propagandist: "The girl carries away the soil as the boy dredges the pond. Sweat drips from their bodies. The girl does not complain of fatigue, although she has carried a thousand loads; nor does the boy feel the chill in the mud. It is not convenient to talk to each other, but they understand each other at heart. Both are heroic fellows. They work until the stars disappear and the sun rises...
...anecdotes but few insights were preserved by his ever fewer friends. "Tomorrow I go to Hayti. They say the President is a Perfect Dear!" he scribbled to a friend. He never traveled abroad without some big blocks of selected coal in his trunk to protect him against a sudden chill in a foreign villa. Ambiguity, misunderstanding and loneliness followed him to the grave and beyond. As he lay dying in Rome, he would not have friends visit him because he would not expose them to the dreadful wallpaper. In its way, it was as sad a death as that...
Frontier Circus (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. An hour-long series starring Chill Wills, John Derek and Richard Jaeckel. Tonight: "The Shaggy Kings," complete with hostile Indians and a wild-buffalo hunt...