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...Scofflaw Search. Last November, however, it appeared that New York had finally caught up with Big Joe. Picked up by police at a race track, Joe, along with two kinsmen, George Lee and George Adams, was haled into court as a scofflaw, a term which New York City's Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh uses to describe the many New Yorkers who habitually dispose of traffic tickets by tearing them up.* Magistrate Murtagh, who has long been waging bitter war on scofflawry, imposed upon Lee (118 unpaid tickets) a $5,900 fine or 590 days in jail and Adams...
France and Germany have squabbled over the Saar since the division of Charle-magnefe empire. France, which would no longer be in the same industrial league as West Germany if the Saar's coal and steel changed hands, concedes that it cannot prevent the Saarlanders from rejoining their kinsmen at some future time, but it insists on a guaranteed share of Saar production, and German nationalists noisily object. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a good European, believes that Franco-German understanding is more important than anything that impedes it, and accordingly will not be trying to hurry the Saar into reunification...
...brothers, whose seven houses were clustered in a tight group near Muggia, were horrified to learn that one had been left behind in Yugoslavia after the partition. The expatriated brother promptly picked up his furniture and belongings, abandoned his house and went to live with one of his luckier kinsmen, only to be told next day that there had been an error of 90 feet in the survey. It reinstated Giusto Samec's house in Italy. "I hope this is final," said Giusto, moving back...
Arsenio introduced me to Taruc's other relatives: Romeo, 17, his only son, who had spent four years in the hills with his father; Meliton, 52, Taruc's half brother. These kinsmen formed the nucleus of a crude little intelligence unit whose job was to seek out Taruc and arrange...
...picture was blurred, and the boy was older, but the young folks convinced Bessie and Dave that it was Ed, all right. Soon the cabin was filled with kinsmen, neighbors, children and newsmen. Then Jim Dickenson, another son of Dave Dickenson's first marriage, burst upon the scene, glared at reporters and photographers and demanded: "When are you going to Hollywood, Pop? . . . You'll bring Ed nothing but harm by talking to all these folks and having your picture took." Bessie protested: "Don't listen to him, Dave." But Dave Dickenson was old and tired. "Bessie...