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...Pendulum. Summoned to the parlor of her modest London home, Mrs. Groomkirby finds that Mr. Groomkirby has transformed it into a replica of an Old Bailey courtroom. "I thought as much," she says bemusedly, then steps into the dock to testify in her son's trial for murder. He has slain 34-or perhaps 43-people by striking them down while they laughed at his jokes. Complaints have been lodged, the judge informs her. And drat it, the lad wears only black...
Black Diaries. At his trial, Casement seemed to one observer "by far the noblest man in court, and the happiest." George Bernard Shaw supplied a plan for the defense; but it was refused by Casement, who made a ringing speech from the dock that compares favorably with the classic delivered by Robert Emmet in similar circumstances...
According to experts in Britain, these measures must include: stricter wage price controls, more tax and credit concessions to exporters, reorganization of the dock industry and, in some cases, like steel, immediate nationalization. To eliminate the deficit, Lord Cromer warned last week, Britain must revitalize her entire economy. The three billion dollar rescue that saved the pound in November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presages swift victory...
...usual in dock strikes, the biggest losses at home were caused by interruption of commodity shipments. Sugar refineries in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore laid off 1,700 employees after they ran out of raw sugar. Pepsi-Cola closed its Long Island City bottling plant. Grain exporters estimated that they lost $250 million of January shipments. Cargill Inc., the nation's largest grain exporter, closed elevators in four states, and two soybean plants shut down in Decatur...
...rules stems from a 1958 inquiry into the rights of criminal defendants, which the government dusted off without warning or explanation. If the proposal becomes law, Fleet Street will be prohibited from even reporting pretrial arraignments-the first court step in an accused man's progress to the dock. This fresh threat to journalistic freedom drew only a scattered response. The Guardian seconded the government's motion: "It is obvious that jurors who sit to hear a case in which evidence on one side has already been widely reported are not coming to court with a wholly open...