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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, June 22), the Supreme Court called off the holiday by rejecting seven appeals based on the Jencks ruling. Written by Justice Felix Frankfurter (joined by Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart), the main opinion in the seven cases upheld a statute passed by Congress in 1957 to narrow the Jencks decision. Its basic rules...
...walked into the U.S. embassy and requested asylum with a simple, eloquent statement of his circumstances and a fine command of English. Said he: "I desire a life of freedom, which is not possible for a citizen of the U.S.S.R." Talking with Burmese newsmen later, he said that "the main occupation of all the Soviet embassy staff in Rangoon is to spy," that Russia and Red China cooperate closely in espionage activities in Burma, but that "my personal opinion, based on my knowledge, is that the main role is played by Communist China...
...ketch (tall mainmast forward, shorter mizzenmast aft) with berths for nine scientists and a crew of 17, the Atlantis was still a very small ship to cope for months with the North Atlantic in all its ferocious moods. She had a rather feeble engine, but sails were her main reliance. Such a laboratory makes oceanography a rugged science. While the little ship rolls and pitches, the scientists work round the clock, snatching bits of food and sleep during quiet intervals in their experiments. Dress is informal. In the Tropics, oceanographers favor ragged shorts or underdrawers; on North Atlantic cruises...
This year at Le Mans, Ferrari, Jaguar and Aston Martin were once again the cars to beat. Ferrari's three-car factory team was favored on the basis of sheer speed, while the Jags and Astons pinned their main hopes on a recurrence of the 1957 race, when mechanical trouble took the Ferraris out of the running. "Our Astons have 40 to 50 h.p. less than the Ferraris," said Aston Martin's Stirling Moss. "On speed we can't touch them...
AGAIN ! the headlines shouted one day last January, and millions of readers pounced on the latest chapter in the amazing adventures of Ferdinand Waldo ("Fred") Demara Jr., the most spectacular impostor of modern times. A sick, brilliant, 37-year-old alter-egotist who never finished high school, Demara by main nerve and native intelligence has carried off careers as military surgeon, psychology professor, cancer researcher, dean of a school of philosophy, language teacher, law student, assistant prison warden, Trappist monk and the devil knows what else (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951; Feb. 25, 1957). Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this...