Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every U.S. schoolboy learns, the Bill of Rights struck down tyranny's "double jeopardy" practice of trying a man more than once for the same crime. But, as any well-educated lawyer knows, a long procession of Supreme Court decisions holds that separate trial by federal and state courts for the same crime is not considered to be double jeopardy. Last week the Supreme Court stuck by precedent in two cases involving federal and state trials-surprising the schoolboys and drawing a stinging dissent from a minority of three of the court's own members...
...pleasant-looking jail of whitewashed brick at Gwelo last week sat Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 54, who, though a Negro, got a white man's cell to himself. His crime: advocating secession. He wants to take his native Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation with the two Rhodesias. Question: Is Britain once again conferring the martyrdom of prison on a man destined to be the leader of a new nation...
...leaves the reader with a wry, ironic aftertaste. Swiss Author Duerrenmatt showed Broadway, in The Visit, how an existentialist allegory of human greed and corruption can be made into exciting theater, especially if Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are on hand (TIME, May 19). The Pledge uses a grisly crime to show how a man's stubborn faith can be defeated by a combination of senseless accident and faithlessness on the part of his fellows...
...added that, nevertheless, the newspaper was able to play down "inflammatory news," omit the "irrelevant" identification of Negroes in crime stories, and print pictures of Negroes on the sports page...
...book, The Professor and I (Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.95), Dorothy Van Doren reveals that her husband is an addict "not of the super, the egghead, type of program . . . but of mysteries, westerns, crime stories, true stories and a quiz or two. He is lost. I get myself comfortable on the living-room sofa by the fire with a book, and presently I hear the beginning of the idiot commercial and know it has started again. Sometimes I watch too; sometimes I stick to the book. But the professor is faithful-all too often he is faithful. One evening there...