Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well hedged with safeguards. A court-though it may issue a temporary restraining order when it deems it necessary to move promptly against the threat of damage or disorder-may issue a permanent injunction only after a public hearing at which the respondent has full rights of counsel, cross-examination and confrontation of witnesses. When it is issued, the injunction demands only that the defendant stop offending. Contempt convictions for failure to comply with injunctions are, like any other convictions, appealable to higher courts...
...first satellite that the U.S. will try to place in an orbit around the earth has apparently been downgraded by about three-quarters. Last week Washington officials of Project Vanguard admitted, with some cross-contradiction, that the first try will be made with a sphere 6.4 in. in diameter weighing about 4.5 lbs. The original plans called for a 20-in. sphere weighing 21.5 lbs. and packed with instruments and radio transmitters. The reduced satellite will carry practically nothing beyond minimum radio equipment to allow it to be tracked through space...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...later. The body of Lord Protector Cromwell was dug up after the Restoration, drawn through the streets, hanged and buried under the gallows at Tyburn. His head was stuck on a pike and exhibited at Westminster Hall. No fewer than ten Cromwellians were hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross as regicides; they died well, too-so well that Author Williamson felt obliged to temper his story with an epilogue that concludes: "For posterity, the gibbet at Charing Cross towers above the scaffold at Whitehall and, in the opinion of some, dwarfs it a little...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...