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...known as "the sun's anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing up Turkish trains and garrisons from Medina to Damascus. Then Allenby strikes north from Aqaba, and Lawrence leads 3,000 tribesmen in triumph to Damascus...
...Courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square, the defense wound up the second week of presenting its case in what has already become the longest criminal trial before a jury in any federal court. The previous record was set in 1949, when Judge Harold B. Medina, since elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, presided over the celebrated seven-month trial of eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party. The current trial was already eight months old when the Government rested its case...
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Three weeks ago Don Manuel Medina came briefly out of hiding in Mexico to try to explain to a grand jury what had happened. His sorrowful statement: "We just ran out of money and had to close." According to Medina, major depositors had withdrawn some $200,000 during the past four months, and the bank simply could not handle the demand for cash. As for his family's overdrawn accounts, Don Manuel explained that was simply his way of taking profits. But he had no explanation for the fact that most of the other overdrafts were in the accounts...
Then Don Manuel slipped back across the border-just before the grand jury indicted him for the felony offense of accepting deposits in a bank that he knew was insolvent. As of last week, ex-Banker Medina was free on $50,000 bail after coming out of hiding to accept arrest. Before the indictment, he had promised to surrender his property to creditors-but, as it turned out, there was precious little property to give. Don Manuel had apparently lost heavily on the stock market recently, and had sold his cattle herd before the closing; even the bank building proved...