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Accused of killing Naka Sakai on a hilltop after luring her onto a rifle range with promises of spent brass cartridges (TIME, June 17), Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard entered a Japanese courtroom one day last week to hear the verdict of his celebrated 86-day trial. Girard, intoned Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi, was guilty...
Damp Spirits. As soon as the Communists heard the news, they ringed the Public Palace on the hilltop with a guard of local comrades armed with weapons cached away since war's end. While Italy's press screamed of "bloody civil war" in the tiny contained nation, San Marino's own partisans were subdued by a drizzling rain. At one point the Reds on the hill organized a sortie against their adversaries, but what with the mud and all, gave up after firing a single wild shot. The Italian government helpfully recognized the anti-Communist government, then...
...Japanese courts, had reckoned without Judge Yuzo Kawachi of the Maebashi District Court. As the Girard trial went into its third week, Judge Kawachi donned raincoat and rubbers and a peasant's wide-brimmed straw hat, took the court sloshing through mud and drenching rain to the hilltop of the U.S. Army firing range where Girard shot a Japanese woman in the back and killed her while she was scavenging for scrap metal (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Meticulously the judge puttered about, asking questions, probing into the testimony, checking visibility and distances...
Moore keeps his figures in the field because he believes that "daylight, sunlight is necessary to sculpture, and for me its best setting and complement is nature." He fully realizes that some open-air sites are wrong for some sculptures, e.g., a windswept hilltop for a realistic statue of a naked adolescent girl. But he likes to place his work "with room to stretch the eye beyond," seeing it in relation to sky and trees, on murky days, in summer sunshine and snow, surrounded by space, air and light. "Indoors," he says, "one can put a piece of sculpture under...
...King, he could stop them by threatening to call in the Iraqis. But Israel, which wants no powerful Arab neighbor at its back door, has often warned that its army will enter Jordan whenever Iraqi soldiers do. On his return to Amman. Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador Mallory to his hilltop palace. The King wanted the U.S. to exert all its influence to keep the Israelis out. Hussein also phoned King Saud. urging him to press Egypt and Syria to abate their inflammatory broadcasts about events in Jordan. That evening the Palestinians were told that the King had decided to reject...