Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than four years the most obvious flaw in the shining moral armor of India's Jawaharlal Nehru has been the case of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) "Lion of Kashmir." Since August 1953 Abdullah has been held a prisoner without trial. His only crime: he pursued policies in Kashmir that were unacceptable to India's Prime Minister...
...Kefauver Committee Report on Organized Crime paints Russian-born Meyer Lansky, 55, as one of the six top U.S. hoodlums: bootlegging, gambling on both coasts, many a link to Murder, Inc. From Batista Lansky got a dream decree for enterprising crapshooters willing to invest abroad. The government waived corporate taxes for ten years, canceled customs' duties on imported gaming equipment. Under certain conditions it offered to back casinos in nightclubs or hotels worth more than $1,000,000. The Minister of Labor, whose brother turned up this year owning a cut of one big new casino, obligingly ruled that...
Research Project. In Courtenay, B.C., Herbert Emerson Wilson, 74, author of I Stole $16,000,000 and other works describing the futility of crime, was fined $200 for stealing $2 worth of meat from a chain store...
...adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang some of his angriest cadences against anti-Catholic bigots, called them "equal to any crime requiring no physical courage...
...form of an Italian truck driver (Raf Vallone). The lovers do not plot the husband's death, but they kill him anyway. After that, accidents keep following each other as if in mockery of Zola's thesis that the punishment must sprout from the seed of the crime...