Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iceland and most recently West Germany with atomic retaliation if they allow NATO to base atomic weapons on their territories. One by one, the ministers of the threatened countries scornfully declared their rejection of the Soviet threats. Said Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange proudly: "If the Russian intent was to weaken the faith of the Norwegian public in NATO, the effect has been exactly the opposite...
Bamboo Swords. Intent on destroying the foundations of Japanese militarism. General Douglas MacArthur after World War II not only stripped the Emperor of his divinity, but banned movies "glorifying war," prohibited such samurai sports as kyujutsu (archery) and kendo (fencing with bamboo swords), and saddled Japan with a constitution renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
...Birmingham, Ala. (pop. 365,000), quite a different kind of trial took place. Accused of burglary "with intent to ravish'' Mrs. Mary Giangrosso, an elderly white woman, was Charles Clarence Hamilton, 26, Negro. Rejecting the court-appointed lawyer, Hamilton attempted to conduct his own defense, denied the state's charge that he entered Mrs. Giangrosso's home in October and that he was caught while removing his clothing. After slightly more than an hour's deliberation the all-White jury returned its verdict: guilty as charged. The sentence: death in the electric chair...
...white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints as well as the formal basis for intervention under the laws and court decisions...
Aside from this The Bachelor Party is succesful and well worth seeing. Charley, the young man (Don Murray), and his wife (Pat Smith) are both properly ordinary looking and, their intent being to act as naturally and untheatrically as possible, do very well. Jack Warner is just right in another of his Dodger fan roles and E.G. Marshall gives a good performance, if he is a little too intent on stripping bare his character for all to see. Carolyn Jones gives the best performance as the fast and intellectually chic Villager who is so wretched that she doesn't know...