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Writes Chambers in Witness: "To [my children] he is always 'Nixie,' the kind and the good, about whom they will tolerate no nonsense. His somewhat martial Quakerism sometimes amused and always heartened me. I have a vivid picture of him in the blackest hour of the Hiss case, standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way (he is the kindest of men): 'If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil...
...most popular sport among German-speaking Swiss (about three-quarters of the country's people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...
...Pretoria's Zwartkop air base one day last week, a bareheaded officer of the South African Air Force snapped to attention before a grim court-martial. The accused was Group Captain Arthur French Shuttleworth, a veteran bomber pilot who won Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II. Shuttleworth was charged with "scandalous behavior, unbecoming to an officer and gentleman," because he had 1) chucked a bottle of mixed pickles at a photograph of South Africa's Nationalist Defense Minister François Christiaan Erasmus, and 2) dropped the offending photograph into a nearby fishpond...
...Both his eyes were permanently injured in 1941 when he pulled his dying navigator out of the wreckage of his bomber. Ostensibly because of his medical condition, South Africa's general staff last week abruptly quashed the charges against Shuttleworth in the midst of the hearing. The court-martial found him "Not Guilty," and even the prosecutor applauded the decision...
...naval court martial, an accused officer's sword must lie before his judges to point the way to innocence or guilt at the trial's end. If the sword is presented hilt forward, he may pick it up and resume his duties. If the point is forward, he has been judged guilty. Last week, in the musty wardroom where Hero Mars stood trial for insubordination and absence without leave, the sword was placed point forward. Penalty: dismissal...