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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden Persuader. In Denver, on trial for possession of burglary tools (a sledge hammer concealed under his jacket), James H. Fielder won acquittal when he explained: "I carry this for protection in case somebody tries to pick a fight with...
...Cheney Griffin (TIME, April 14, 1958), have been indicted on 20 charges, among them embezzlement, theft, tax-record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand-jury foreman...
...required to justify a further trip to the summit. Casting about for a relatively harmless concession, the Russians indicated that they were willing to be somewhat more reasonable about an inspection system to enforce the long-discussed ban on nuclear testing. To France, which is making its own H-bomb and hopes soon to test it, this was no attraction...
...survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald K. Slayton, 35, Marine Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 37, Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom...
...Thoughtless prescription of blood transfusion is playing Russian roulette with bottles of blood instead of a revolver," wrote Dr. William H. Crosby Jr. of Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. "While the odds are in the physician's favor that nothing will go wrong, the patient takes the risk." Doctors are familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type...