Word: concerning
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EVEN by the Soviet Union's own definition of aggression," Russia's "massive armed intervention" in Hungary is a matter for international concern, concluded a lucid and devastating U.N. committee report. The headlines told of brutality condemned, but the real fascination of the 150,000-word report is the story of how Russia coldly provoked the uprising it intended to crush, and ruled through a Premier held prisoner. See FOREIGN NEWS, Indictment for Murder...
Wrote Warren: "The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify, against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern matters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reaction in the life of the witness may be disastrous . . . Those who are identified by witnesses and thereby placed in the same glare of publicity are equally subject to public stigma, scorn and obloquy...
Seldom in so short a span do newspapers have to grapple with such complex legal issues as those in the Page One headlines last week. They ranged from the indictment of Russia's rape of an entire nation to the fine points of Supreme Court concern for the rights of individuals. Abstruse and remote though most of them might be in their philosophical underpinnings, these topics aroused Americans because they converged on the central theme of freedom and justice under law-whether in Japan or Germany, whether for Hungarians or Americans...
...Cost of Inflation. Quarles expressed far more concern over the cause for the ban, the Government's desperate battle to control soaring defense costs. Expenditures are running $2 billion over the $36 billion budgeted for fiscal 1957 (TIME, May 6) and threaten to wipe out the predicted $1.7 billion budget surplus. So worried is the Defense Department that Wilson also ordered the three services to reduce their buying by $500 million for the rest of fiscal...
...beautiful friendship gets thicker and thicker. The marshal displays a tender concern for his friend's health, nags him about his drinking, clucks about his tubercular cough. In the end. Doc staggers up from his deathbed and reels out "to die with the only friend I ever had.'' They both survive, and in the moment conventionally occupied by the clinch, the two heroes stand face to face. In a voice charged with emotion, the marshal says: "I just wantcha ta know I'd a never made it withoutcha." And as he drags himself off to join...