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...third such decision by a Southern court in eight days. Fortnight ago, in Wetumpka, Ala., two white men got 45-year prison sentences (TIME, Dec. 13) for raping Negro women...
...train to London and charged straight into Britain's Judge Advocate General's office. "I had no appointment," he recalls, "but they let me in. They were very nice to me, and they listened." Slowly and ponderously the machinery of justice began to roll, and last fortnight Torturers Kinoshita and Yoshida heard their sentences before a British court: life imprisonment for the former, twelve years for the latter...
...years. The New Yorker's Lewis Mumford is what Moses scornfully calls "an Ivory Tower" planner, a devoted disciple of Scotland's famed planner, Sir Patrick Geddes, and a learned critic who for years has been examining Manhattan's skyline with a dour eye. A fortnight ago, the two were hooting at each other in the columns of the New Yorker like motorists in a traffic...
...President Romulo Gallegos, who flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign...
Harvard Observatory has seen the third robbery in its vicinity within a fortnight. On Sunday night Albion Sawyer '52 ran into a holdup there that has not yet been reported to the Cambridge police...