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...against deportation from the U.S. because of a drug conviction in Britain. Things took a turn for the better when Lennon got a temporary suspension of his case on humanitarian grounds: Wife Yoko Ono's pregnancy. Last week, on the eve of Lennon's 35th birthday, his ordeal finally ended; a court of appeals barred immigration officials from deporting the ex-Beatle. Said the jubilant Lennon: "It's a great birthday gift from America for me, Yoko and the baby." Two days later, Yoko, 42, gave birth to Sean Ono Lennon...
...ratted on the Redgraves? It turned out to be W.R.P. Recruit No. 5005, better known to British TV and stage audiences as Irene Gorst, 28, a rising comedienne. The cops descended on the Red House soon after Gorst went to the London Observer with a tale about an "ordeal" she had suffered there at the hands of the Redgraves and their comrades. As she told it, she arrived late for the beginning of her two-week course at the Red House because an old beau had whisked her off to Maidenhead for lunch. This infraction of party discipline outraged...
...fear, the attack on the Foreign Service men seemed to many repugnant in practice but justified in intent. Senator McCarthy seized the moment to cow the federal employees who might have aided the accused. As E.J. Kahn puts it in The China Hands, his sensitive, knowing account of their ordeal, "Few had ever been so mightily damned by nasty people and so meagerly defended by nice ones." Nasty or nice, honest men could disagree about the China experts' judgment, but it was their loyalty that was frenetically attacked. They were railroaded out of the Foreign Service, or at best...
...days, one of the nation's most storied families had oscillated between frustration and faith, resignation and hope. It was the kind of roller-coaster existence all relatives of kidnap victims must endure, but for the Randolph Hearsts, somehow, everything about the ordeal seemed more extreme...
...cops pursued him, and when Prell refused to pull over, one fired three .38-cal. bullets into the truck. Prell eluded his pursuer and made it home unhurt. Although Prell himself called the Louisville Courier-Journal and three radio and television stations to complain, not a word of his ordeal was broadcast or printed. (The Courier-Journal finally printed the story last week only after TIME started checking...