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...prudent for employers to avoid hiring ex-convicts, but it is hard on the ex-cons. Even a one-time loser who wants to go straight can find him self wandering from employment office to employment office, gradually realizing that the only trade he is eligible to follow is crime. But now, in Washington, B.C., a group of former convicts is offering a solution: it runs an employ ment agency that places ex-cons only...
Little in Common. Where Adolf Eichmann sought to evade moral responsibility by claiming that he was following orders, Stauffenberg disobeyed orders in the name of moral responsibility. He had little in common with history's successful assassins. He was no envious leftist loser and loner like Lee Harvey Oswald, no anarchist fanatic like Czolgosz (the man who killed President McKinley), no tribal desperado like Princip (who shot Archduke Ferdinand and brought on World War I). He was rather an honorable officer and gentleman, a colonel on the general staff of the German army. Why, then, did he decide...
...repair its tanks, the company started making motorcycles again, and began looking around for a car design as well. Misjudging the market, BMW decided on an eight-cylinder luxury job which cost so much to build that it lost money from the start. Simultaneously, the company started producing a loser on the other end of the scale: the onecylinder 13-h.p. Isetta. By 1959, the firm was so deep in the red that merger or absorption seemed inevitable. Rumors spread that several big firms, including Daimler-Benz and General Electric, were making bids. This so shocked proud Bavaria that...
...TIME owes it to its readers to name the anonymous Governor whom I allegedly told that "Dick Nixon is a loser" [July 7]. It will be especially interesting, since I have never said it or thought it. I am sorry that at a time when Republican leaders are working hard for party unity, TIME would stoop to quoting nameless sources in an effort to destroy that unity...
...major parties. That is the only lead the party is likely to enjoy. Having amassed a grand total of 27,000 votes in 1964, the Prohibitionists-whose symbol is a camel, because, as one member explained, "it can go a long way without liquid"-decided to stick with a loser. Renominated for President was E. Har old Munn Sr., 63, an associate dean at Michigan's Hillsdale College. Named as his running mate was Topeka Evangelist Rolland E. Fisher...