Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's budget squabble has had more to lose than Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon. No one could hang out a better excuse for sidestepping the issue. But rather than dodge, Nixon has dived head-on into the battle, and in the process has been more than willing to cut loose whatever conservative Republican ties he had. Waiting to pick up what Nixon casts off is a conservative champion named William Fife Knowland, the Old Guard's candidate for President in 1960. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Nixon on the Line and Knowland at the Ready...
...Richmond this week the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will hang two new acquisitions (see color page) that not only rank high as art but also provide a study in similarity and contrast. Both tell stories, both deal with famed warriors; and yet in treatment and technique they stand as far apart as cool, clear crystal from the warmth of flamboyant stained glass...
Twelve Angry Men (Orion-Nova; United Artists). "And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine." The force of Pope's words came home to Television Playwright Reginald Rose when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels...
...Rope, which comes last in the triple bill, comes first in impact. It is the tale of a feeble-minded old man and of the noose he hangs up for his prodigal son to hang himself with if he should return. The prodigal does return, but does not hang himself--which seems too bad, because his ironic old half-wit father has tied his hidden fortune to the far end of the hangman's rope. Why he should want to help his detestable son instead of killing him is unexplained, but he fails totally. So, in a most frustrating manner...
...should 1) halt production of fissionable material for weapons purposes on April 1, 1958, or as soon as possible thereafter upon the ratification of the necessary agreements; and 2) thereafter divert all such nuclear production to peaceful purposes. Net effect of the plan: while allowing the big powers to hang on to nuclear weapons stockpiled before the cut-off date, it would "reverse the trend" of nuclear armament and pave the way for transfers of existing stockpiles to non-military...