Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For a few hours he was a hero. Attendants at Newport's Pacific Communities Hospital felt that he might well have saved Meuler's life. But State Police Sergeant William Colbert was not so sure. Though Thomson insisted that the demonstrator's front wheels had locked, the...
Almost as astounding as the blunt confession was its authorship. For the last four years Nikita Khrushchev has been the chief architect of the program whose results he now deplored. He masterminded the agrogorod scheme, designed to further collectivize the already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land...
A Way Out? Oatis knew what to expect, since the secret police had already warned him "if anyone opposes us, we ruin him. You'll talk; everybody talks here." For hour upon unbearable hour, questioners brought statements before him to sign. At first, Oatis objected to the "confession," redrafted...
. . . Pastor Niebuhr's confession implies a dislike for congressional investigations. I like them ... If it had not been for these investigations, it is doubtful if such "confessions" would have ever seen the light of day.
¶ In Boston, President Edwin M. Otterbourg of the New York County Lawyers' Association proposed a twelve-point code to regulate news reporting of criminal cases. He denounced the present state of affairs as "the law of the jungle." Key clause in Otterbourg's code: "Statements that a...