Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clarice Covert. Mrs. Smith, daughter of wartime Army General Walter Krueger, was found guilty by a court-martial of stabbing her husband, an Army colonel, to death in their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority, and Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas...
...essential misunderstanding between Hinduism and Christianity is in the contrast between teaching and preaching. By explaining the meaning of Hindu doctrine to his pupil and guiding him in controlled living, the Hindu master hopes to lead him to enlightenment. "That is why the Hindu is always perplexed by Christian preaching, which invariably leads to a point where a decision is called for. While the evangelist's teaching may be accepted and his good work appreciated, the final appeal for a decision to which all this eventually leads is resented as essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks...
Watching the hue and cry that swept over West Germany after the incident, the Parisian newspaper Le Monde gloomily saw the accident as new proof of the power of command over Germans: "Command is still the absolute master. Once this command led to crime, today to suicide. It is strange to see how a people can rely so blindly on those who give it orders. Poor Germans...
...Munich's Alte Pinakothek, Dr. Ernst Buchner, was ready for World War II the day it came. Years before, he had sought out and established Alpine hideaways for his masterpieces. When war was declared on Sept. 3, 1939, Buchner closed the doors of the museum and got his master plan rolling to save one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, including 74 Rubenses, 10 Rembrandts, 26 Van Dycks, 15 Dürers, 10 Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings were packed...
...class began to gather before University Hall at 10 p.m. while anxious parents looked heavenward to see whether precipitation would occur before the march to the flag-decked quadrangle began. "What lovely raindrops," remarked Lowell House Master Elliot Perkins, arriving at the scene as a little rain fell...