Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Record. In Little Rock, Ark., Acting Governor Nathan Gordon justified his reduction of Amos Wilson's sentence for second-degree murder from nine to two years: "During the time he has been in the penitentiary he has been a law-abiding citizen...
Nevertheless, the U.N. was not yet a museum piece. In the midst of crisis, the shrillest pitch of crisis in its history, the U.N. focused the world's attention. The measure of its weakness was that U.N. could not even protect its own mediator, Count Bernadotte, from terrorist murder. The measure of its strength was that every nation, including Russia, took U.N. seriously enough to maneuver vigorously to win its approval or, at least, to evade its disapproval...
...showed not much sorrow for the man, whom they had disliked, but horror at the act. "The personal tragedy didn't hit us at all," said one Israel newspaperman. "We are too hardened. Life has been cheap here for years. What shocked us is the recurrence of political murder. God knows where that will lead us. If a couple of snot-noses can kill anyone they like, and get away with it, they might decide to turn on Shertok or Ben-Gurion next...
...evening of the murder, 13-year-old Bertil Bernadotte switched on the radio at Dragongärden. That is how he heard the news. He ran to his mother, who took the news with outward calm; she had feared for weeks that her husband would be killed. Quietly she went to call her elder son, who was away at school. Soon the whole family assembled. King Gustav heard of his nephew's death as he was returning from his summer vacation; the old King wept. In Paris, U.N. delegates heard the news as they were getting ready for this...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for fun; with John Ball, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...