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Triple Victory. Though jailed, Augstein seems remarkably content. He apparently does not envy those of his colleagues-including Managing Editor Claus Jacob,. and his brother, Lawyer Josef Augstein-who have been freed. He has. in fact, made little attempt to challenge the government's right to imprison him. After all, Augstein's arrest has already resulted in 1) a Cabinet crisis in Konrad Adenauer's government, 2) the resignation of Augstein's hated enemy. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, and 3) a surge in Der Spiegel's circulation from 525,000 to more than...
...class of '29): his father, Alger Hiss, 57, an honors graduate who won the coveted post of secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the recommendation of Mentor Felix Frankfurter, served as a high State Department official before his conviction (and three-year eight-month imprison ment) for perjury in denying that he had passed Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. He is now a salesman for stationery and printing interests...
...walls now imprison East Germans-the Berlin Wall and the new 834-mile barrier that the Reds are building along the whole length of the East-West German frontier. Nevertheless, East Germans continue to escape westward-each one risking his life to seek freedom...
...altar when he was young, and has been playing out a whole series of Mr. Morrow's fantasies ever since. His obsession is carving a mountain into an equestrian status of Crazy Horse, which represents, among other things, a desire to resurrect the noble barbarian, a wish to imprison God in stone and thus kill him, and a hope of consecrating the stone of the mountain. I know all these things, because Morrow has written them into the monologue that constitutes the last quarter of the play...
...authorities cannot prove their case against the Apalachin group on the basis of its real crimes, it is better to let nineteen guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent man. The Court of Appeals has shown both wisdom and courage in restating the principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The law protects the criminal as well as the citizen--and it must continue to do so, even if some clever gangsters must go free in the process...