Word: civilities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story came to light last week during a formal Greek army court-martial. It happened at Klidi, a mountain village on the strategic Kozane-Florina road. Klidi's 600 inhabitants are mostly illiterate and know little of democracy; as for the civil war, many of their kin fought with the government, many with the guerrillas. The only thing the people of Klidi knew for sure was that they wanted to hold on to their rich cornfields. For that reason, they had collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation; for that reason, they obeyed the rule of their proedros...
...never a particularly distinguished jurist; it was not his game. But he did make his voice heard in defense of civil liberties-in which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible...
...same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look at the non-skeds' safety practices...
Last week, CAA acted. Charging Strato-Freight with overloading and persistent violation of safety regulations (e.g., it had ignored a badly frayed flap follow-up cable), CAA ordered the airline to stop flying. It was the first time that CAA which usually leaves such police action to the Civil Aeronautics Board, had grounded an overseas airline...
Selective Service. In Little Rock, Ark., when Civil Service Commission officials explained to a job applicant that positions were limited to those with "veterans' preference," the woman admitted that she was not a veteran or married to one, "but I sure prefer them...