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Master of All. A year later Stalin, now master of all appointments, had Trotsky deposed as Commissar for War. Taking fright, Zinoviev and Kamenev sought to re-establish friendship with Trotsky, but the new boss was listening. In 1926 Stalin got from a party conference a sweeping condemnation of Trotskyites and Zinovievites alike. Trotsky and his erstwhile friends were through. A year later, Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev were formally expelled from the party. Soon after that, Trotsky was forcibly removed from Moscow and sent to Alma Ata in Central Asia. He was expelled from Russia in January...
...Third, people are enjoying the fright to some extent. They seem to be a part of an exciting piece of science fiction...
They slip into West Berlin furtively, usually on a streetcar or subway train. Dazed by fright and fatigue, they seek out a policeman; he directs them to a three-story brick building in Kuno Fischer Strasse in the British sector. In a jostle overhung with the smell of sweat and disinfectant, they are registered and assigned to a refugee center. Berlin now has 78 of them, large & small. One is a former bomb shelter without windows. Another, which I visited last week, is a hastily reconditioned former factory where each of 11,800 refugees gets a cot, about...
...time. In the first trial in recorder's court, Ingram explained that he had mistaken blue-jeaned Willa Jean Boswell for one of her brothers, had started to follow her across a cornfield to ask if he could borrow the family trailer. When she took fright and ran, he turned back to his car. The judge, acting on the basis of a North Carolina law that says assault can be committed even without physical contact, sentenced Ingram to two years in jail (TIME. July 23, 1951). Last November, Ingram's appeal went before a mixed jury (four Negroes...
...this type of patient, the doctors reported in last week's A.M.A. Journal, it might have taken nothing but a more severe fright to cause a prolonged heart speedup. And this is the sort of speed-up that can lead to fibrillation (a futile, nonrhythmic quivering) of the lower part of the heart, which means death...