Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself was called to give evidence, he still had traces of a black eye, but he looked calm, perfectly at ease, rather detached. In guttural tones, he answered questions as if the answers bore no relation to his own fate. "Do you know," asked Prosecuting Counsel Maxwell Turner, leaning forward with heavy jowls jutting out, "what is the punishment for capital murder in England?" Replied Podola indifferently: "They told me in prison. Either you get off or"-he let his hand swing down from the elbow-"it will be hanging." And never once was Podola trapped into an admission...
This week, after further testimony, Podola's twelve jurors, battered by diametrically opposed medical opinion, must make up their minds whether he is capable of participating in his own defense. If they decide that he is, he will go forward lo a trial that could end in his execution. If not, for the first time in British history, a man will escape the law's clutches on the ground that he has forgotten the crime charged against...
...revealed a major upheaval in the government of Red China. In the greatest purge in four years, some 25 vice ministers and other senior officials were fired from their jobs. The causes of the shakeup, though not divulged by Peking, seemed clear: the humiliating failure of "the great leap forward," the enforced revision of phony production statistics (TIME, Sept. 7), popular antipathy to the vaunted rural communes, and growing strain between Red China's Communist Party and army...
Except for Peng Teh-huai, most of last week's casualties were second-level officials of the Foreign Office and other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed in slower and more orderly fashion. Though Peking is now grudgingly "tidying up the communes," discarding the wasteful backyard pig iron furnaces and giving its weary and befuddled population something of a breathing spell, it cannot admit failure. Neither can Red China's top leaders, still apparently unaffected...
...surreal ravings still tell a real story -of a young university graduate educated beyond his background through the goodness of the welfare state, frustrated in a nation living in twilight, a second-class citizen in a society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter...