Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Soviet embassy granted visas to Powers' wife and mother, enabling them to arrive in Moscow shortly before Powers goes on trial on Aug. 17, his 31st birthday. Four lawyers seeking to defend Powers, including Columbia University's Russian expert, John N. Hazard, were denied visas; instead a court-assigned Soviet lawyer will represent Powers. The airman will face espionage charges in the military section of the Soviet Supreme Court. If convicted, Powers can be sentenced to from seven years' imprisonment to death. Unless the Russians change their minds, his family will not be permitted...
...civilians-urge the uneasy boys to desert, they blindly follow Scholten's lead. "You can do as you please," he says. "I am staying. Winnetou will hold the fort." The boys' resolution is strengthened when a passing general cannot resist spouting nonsense: he urges them to defend the bridge and announces that with a few thousand like them, Germany might still...
...French and Israelis attacked Egypt in 1956 and were told to retreat by the U.S., Hammarskjold organized the first world police force to keep order in the Middle East. Never making statements from which he would have to retreat, never committing others to public positions that they could not defend, Hammarskjold has cautiously moved behind a cloud of equivocal words to win an Arab-Israeli truce that has lasted four years. By establishing a representative as a "U.N. presence" in Laos, he stifled Communist infiltration from North Viet...
...fighter, World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, that D'Amato outdid his customary generosity in giving Patterson a little something befitting the man's rank. At a testimonial banquet in Manhattan, Boxer Patterson, who regained his title in June from Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and plans to defend it in Los Angeles Nov. i, starred in a coronation ceremony witnessed by such fight fans as U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and Grand Old Democrat James A. Farley. His gift, symbolizing good behavior and pugilistic excellence: a jazzy gold crown...
...overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman. The rape trial, Jem's helling, and even Boo Radley are deeply involved in the irregular and very effective education of Scout Finch. By the time she ends her first-person account at the age of nine, she has learned that...