Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though Ford has my devotion, How about G.M.'s "poetry in motion...
Published this week, Alger Hiss's In the Court of Public Opinion (Knopf; $5) turns out to be a heavily legalistic, dully written analysis of the Hiss case; lawyers will instantly recognize it as a rewrite of Hiss's motion for a new trial, which the courts denied. Hiss stoutly maintains his innocence of the charge that he committed perjury when he denied giving State Department secrets to Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. His defense is essentially the same one that his lawyers used in his 1949 and 1950 trials. Author Alger Hiss seems remarkably devoid of personal outrage...
...their motion for a new trial, Hiss's attorneys in effect charged: during a brief interval in 1935-36 when Hiss had befriended Chambers, Chambers had stolen some samples of typing from Hiss's old Woodstock; at some time over the ensuing dozen years (for reasons totally unexplained) Chambers had somehow got someone to build a machine that would type exactly like the old Woodstock, had typed the sheets of espionage material, and then planted the fake machine where Hiss's own investigators would find it and bring it into court. This argument was effectively demolished...
Deploring the fact that the motion for a new trial based on this theory was denied in 1952, Hiss writes: "Like so many other events in the case, even the disposition of this motion had a political setting. The case had begun four years earlier in the midst of a presidential election campaign. Judge Goddard denied the motion for a new trial on July 22, during the sessions of the Democratic Convention that was to nominate Adlai E. Stevenson, who had been one of my character witnesses...
...system is two deep grooves built into the hull near the ship's stern (see diagram). They converge toward the propeller, and when the ship is in motion, the propeller sucks streams of water from both grooves. As the streams move together, they exert pressure on the wedge-shaped section of hull between them and "pinch" it forward, rather as a watermelon seed is pinched from between two fingers...