Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week word drifted out from Fort Myer about Andrew God's court-martial. The trial had all the trimmings of the customary military tribunal, even a heavily worded bill of specifications: Pfc. Andrew God, 25, "having knowledge of a lawful order ... to peel and eye potatoes as directed, an order which it was his duty to obey, did . . . fail to obey the same. [He] did, without proper authority, willfully suffer potatoes, of some value, military property of the U.S., to be destroyed by improper peeling...
...voters of Little Rock (pop. 126,300) took a lot of starch out of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' fight against school integration last month when they washed three Faubusites out of the school board in a recall election (TIME, June 8). Last week a three-judge federal court got on with the job by holding unconstitutional the Faubus-designed state laws that empowered Faubus to lock all four city high schools (2,900 white pupils, 750 Negroes) for the 1958-59 school year and transfer some of their funds to a private school for whites only. By reminding...
...conferring hereditary titles on its citizens, because "it seemed alien to the life of Canada."† Today, a Canadian who hopes to be ennobled must live in Britain, as does Ontario-born Lord Beaverbrook. Canada began to issue passports, changed "subjects" to "citizens," stopped sending appeals from its Supreme Court to Britain's Privy Council...
...longtime (1932-57) chairman of the U.S. Communist Party. William Z. Foster, now 78 and so ill that he has never been tried on his 1948 indictments for conspiracy, asked a Manhattan court to lift the raps on him or let him go to the Soviet Union anyway. His reason: medical treatment costs too much...
...free to state our opinions in any way we like," said Justice Cyril Salmon, "diffidently, decorously, politely and discreetly, or pungently, provocatively, rudely and even brutally. We may not tell a defamatory lie about anyone." With that charge, the jury in a London court last week retired to consider the libel suit of Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey...