Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the majority opinion, written by Justice Tom Clark: "At the outset we must condemn the practice of imputing a sinister meaning to the exercise of a person's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment . . . The privilege against self-incrimination would be reduced to a hollow mockery if its exercise could be taken as equivalent either to a confession of guilt or a conclusive presumption of perjury...
...Middle East oil is to Britain's very existence. Crisis phrases-such as "No appeasement"-leap from leader writers' typewriters. Though Sir Anthony Eden says nothing publicly, the government's tough line on Cyprus-the airborne dispatch of two battalions of paratroopers, the defiance of world opinion in exiling Archbishop Makarios-looks beyond Cyprus itself. Britain wants to be ready to act swiftly in the Middle East. It fears a new anti-British outbreak in Jordan, and is ready to fly in paratroopers to help young King Hussein put it down. For if Britain loses its hold...
...said, is overemphasizing the military side of its policy, and so letting the Communists steal peace as a weapon of propaganda. From the time both the U.S. and Russia exploded the H-bomb, Mollet has "never believed" in the threat of a major Soviet attack, and in his opinion the position the U.S., Britain and France took at Geneva last summer, in putting German reunification ahead of disarmament...
...attacks, strokes, hemorrhages. Most researchers and practicing specialists have come to believe that arteriosclerosis comes mainly from excess amounts of cholesterol, a fatty substance that clogs the blood vessels. Last week, in a report, Dr. Herman T. Blumenthal, 43, laboratory director of St. Louis' Jewish Hospital, dealt prevailing opinion a rude shock. His thesis, supported by ten years of research: emotional stress is the main cause of arteriosclerosis. How does it work? Fluctuating blood pressure, working against the walls of the arteries, causes lesions and hardening...
Died. Manilal Mohandas Gandhi, 63, son of the late great Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, and editor of the South African weekly, Indian Opinion, after long illness; in Phoenix, Natal. Taken to South Africa as a child, Manilal Gandhi adopted his father's methods for his lone passive resistance struggle against the government's apartheid policy, helped focus world attention on South Africa by his deliberate lawbreaking, jail terms and fasts...