Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood silently before Federal Judge Matthew Abruzzo in Brooklyn's U.S. District Court as he was arraigned, occasionally rubbed the handcuffs on his wrists, momentarily allowed his faded blue eyes to show a flash of animation as his gaze darted about the courtroom. Alert U.S. deputy marshals hovered close by, and outside the courtroom shirtsleeved FBI men patrolled the corridors. The U.S. had a valuable catch to protect: the prisoner at the bar was Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55. Moscow-born colonel of Soviet intelligence, and possibly the most important Soviet spy ever caught...
Hotheaded partisans of Rebel Fidel Castro tried to close down the Cuban economy last week, and quickly discovered that well-paid workers do not become ardent revolutionaries. For six days, workers in pro-rebel Santiago de Cuba held firmly to their spontaneous general strike (TIME, Aug. 12). then gradually drifted back to their jobs. Most Havana workers, making near-record wages, ignored the call. Going up were four new skyscraper hotels. A new superhighway was snaking west from the city along the sea front, and underneath Havana Bay, a 20-lane tunnel needed only five more months of work before...
...prayed 131 delegates, consultants and guests of the World Council of Churches' Central Committee at the close of its annual meeting in New Haven, Conn. During the nine-day meeting, the committee...
...Suspicious of the old wives' tale that more babies are born at full moon than other times, Obstetrician Ernest T. Ripp-mann of Lancaster, Pa. checked 9,551 births for a ten-year period, found nothing to it. On the contrary, slightly more babies were born close to the new moon than to the full moon...
...unhealthy is the continuance, far beyond infancy, of practices appropriate only for infants: "Under the guise of 'motherly' or 'fatherly' affection, boys and girls may be bathed by parents, often of the opposite sex, until adolescence. Children sense at bathing whether a mother's close inspection of the genitals is an honest, brief, physical necessity or an anxious, seductive maneuver . . . Sleeping with children of the opposite sex is prolonged into the teen-age period. The mother may still continue to lie with the son, despite awareness that erections occur." Beyond this is a wide range...