Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress' (including many Republicans), Harry Truman and ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, dancing in a program of false economy through the critical months of '49 and '50 with what Columnist Stewart Alsop last week called the President's "silly optimism" and Johnson's "dark guilt." Certainly Mistake No. 2 had left the State Department, in an old Chinese phrase, armed with "spears of straw and swords...
...sing, diddums." Disc Jockey Costa had received several mildly abusive letters from anti-puddy-tatters. Sample: "Take a firm grip on your puddy-tat record, face the exit, then bend down with your back to the record that gives you the greatest kick." Asked if he felt any guilt for his part in launching Britain on its current baby-talk rage, Costa looked hurt. "Not at all," he said. "I believe in giving the people what they want...
Later last week the "Bitch of Buchenwald," no longer the doll-eyed ruminant, collapsed in a hysterical heap in an Augsburg courtroom, was carried off to a hospital for mental observation. Several doctors said she was suffering from temporary insanity caused by a guilt complex; others said Ilse was faking in an attempt to delay justice. The 43-year-old widow of Karl Koch, commander of the Nazi extermination camp, was on trial for the second time for crimes committed at Buchenwald where 50,000 died. Charges against her: instigating the murder of some 35 German inmates, instigating the attempted...
...federal court of appeals reversed the conviction of Judith Coplon, ex-Justice Department analyst convicted of trying to pass secret documents to the Russians. The court's reason: legal blunders by the FBI in gathering the evidence and making the arrest. The court was sure, however, that her "guilt is plain." She still stood convicted by another court, on a charge of stealing the documents...
Alger Hiss was near the end of his road. Last week a U.S. court of appeals decided there was enough believable evidence of his guilt. The "breadth and scope" of Whittaker Chambers' testimony against him had been "adequately substantiated," said the court. Nor could the court find any reversible errors in his second trial, which ended last January, in Hiss's conviction for perjury on two counts...