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Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a leader of the Polish underground who refused to "confess" despite 70 days &nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June...
...meet the public halfway. They must, like the artist, learn to communicate with people of little skill and less patience. They must do their share of searching for the never-never land where science and common sense meet. It will be a country where "the greatest scholar [will] confess himself the equal of the child." No mind will be so "debauched with learning" that it will shun the simple skepticism that blows the lid off everything...
Dropping the Pilot. When military soothsayers try to look into the future, they confess to considerable bewilderment. None can now predict how the new weapons will react upon one another and upon older weapons. Another unknown quantity is their cost, which is sure to be high. But many advantages are gained by dispensing with the human crewmen, who need space, visibility, heating and cooling, oxygen and pressurizing apparatus. And the crew of the modern bomber is an expensive item itself; it takes money and time to train its members...
With Some It Takes Longer. Did Vogeler want to repudiate his confession at the trial? Vogeler slowly crushed his cigarette in an ashtray. Said he: "There was some truth in it." But he added: "It is just a question of time before you confess. With some it takes a little longer than others, but nobody can resist that treatment indefinitely." Reporters took away the impression that they had not yet heard the whole story...
...said they kept demanding he confess to an alleged complicity with American citizens he never knew in an imaginary plot aimed at the assassination of Peron. "I told them I would rather die than admit to such a falsehood," he said...