Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAVID ROUSSET...
Very baffling, thought Attorney David A. Weyer. A practicing lawyer for only two years, he had taken on his first criminal case and lost it. Violet Sill, 34, a bride of 15 months, had confessed, been tried and found guilty of manslaughter, had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. She had fired the shotgun that killed her tavern-owner husband Marion; this was incontrovertible. Yet for 34-year-old Dave Weyer, who had once worked in a children's psychiatric clinic, Violet Sill's continued insistence on her own guilt raised the suspicion that something was wrong...
...third party has still to be brought around: Israel's David Ben-Gurion, who wants political rewards for surrendering his military gains. Ben-Gurion, from past experience, has a low opinion of Hammarskjold's famed diplomatic technique. In the Israeli view, Hammarskjold thinks that situations can be solved merely by formulating them...
...latest hunt for trouble in Egypt, Roy teamed up with an oddly contrasting companion: short, owlish Photographer David Seymour, 45, a grey-haired, Polish-born, Sorbonne-educated American known affectionately almost everywhere as "Shim" (after his real name, Chimin), and as celebrated for his gentleness and ensibility as Roy for his daring. Violence lad shadowed Shim's life: the Nazis destroyed his family in Poland, and a Communist land mine in Indo-China killed his best friend, famed War Photographer Robert Capa, with whom Shim and France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos...
STEEL UNION REVOLT threatens United Steelworkers President David McDonald (TIME, July 9). Steelworkers have nominated rank-and-file slate to oppose top officers in union election in February. Rebels oppose monthly dues hike from $3 to $5 to fatten union's strike war chest (now at $21 million) and pay boosts to McDonald (from $40,000 to $50,000) and other staffers...