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Turkey seemed calm but uneasy. Since the execution of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, ex-Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan, and ex-Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu, for "crimes against the Turkish constitution" (TIME, Sept. 22), the big question was whether Strongman Cemal Gursel would allow free elections to take place, as...
Wall of Privacy. In dreamlike slow motion. Author Waller unfolds all the false leads, the endless waits, the newspaper clamors and police tricks of another day-and finally the bitter legal battles over reprieve and execution stays that Caryl Chessman might have admired for their exploitation of the law'...
Once before, early in the presidential campaigning, Quadros dramatically resigned his candidacy in protest over the demands being made by parties supporting him. At that time, the result was a hair-trigger revolt by a few army and air force officers, pleas from across the nation for his return, and...
The ministry's report dealt with the twelve elaborate garden cities, integrated with industrial facilities that were built by the Labor government in England and Wales after World War II; each has a population of between 12,000 and 54,000, which will eventually grow to between 20,000...
The Judges of the Secret Court, by David Stacton. The author, a historical novelist (On a Balcony) of rare skill, writes a bitter account of the death of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and the trial and execution of the forlorn set of dupes and fools named as his fellow conspirators...