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Martial law is at an end, but the state of emergency continues, permitting the government to hold 42,000 Mau Maus in prison camps-34,000 without trial because the government lacks evidence to convict but fears to turn them free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Place at Peace | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...They lacked nothing. They were brilliant students in law, science and languages; Leopold had a rating as "genius" in intelligence tests. Life offered them everything-and what it gave them was a 99-year-plus-life sentence in Illinois prisons. Loeb died in prison, the victim of a fellow convict's straight razor in a shower-bath row framed in homosexualism. Leopold lives on, a sad, heavy-set man of 51, deeply read in many languages, and fascinated by medical research which he works at along with his job as technician in the Stateville prison hospital. Leopold declares, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder & the Supermen | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Cornelius P. Rhoads announced that he and fellow researchers had confirmed the long-suspected existence of a "cancer-immune mechanism" in normal human cells. In a series of tests at Ohio Penitentiary begun last spring (TIME, June 4), laboratory-cultivated human cancer cells were transplanted to 14 cancer-free convict volunteers. Similar transplants had previously grown well in patients already suffering from cancer. But in the healthy convicts they "evoked a most vigorous, inflammatory reaction," and "were promptly rejected and disappeared." When the mechanism that rejects the cancerous cells is finally identified it could lead to a chemical cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...knowledge spreads that Berthier means to do his duty, he becomes a public hero. His girl's adoration lives in her eyes, and he knows the heady pride of a man who is honored for sticking to principle. Full of righteousness, he sets out in court to convict a man he knows to be innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Principle | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...wife and secretary. The secretary whipped out a gun, but was quickly disarmed. Count Foucou de Gines proved to be one Regis Combier, a 27-year-old sewing-machine salesman and sometime arms smuggler, and the "countess" was his wife. The secretary was a 36-year-old ex-convict named Edouard Rimbaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Down lor the Count | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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