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Twelve Angry Men (Orion-Nova; United Artists). "And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine." The force of Pope's words came home to Television Playwright Reginald Rose when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels...
...Orion & Olympus. At Farnborough last week, most of the big companies had some new engines to display. Bristol Aeroplane Co., whose economical Proteus turboprop powers the new Britannia airliner (TIME, Dec. 19), showed off a bigger, 5,000-h.p. Orion version slated for 1959 production and an improved Olympus turbojet engine rated at a whopping 16,000 Ibs. of thrust. De Havilland uncorked a new gadget: a Supersprite rocket engine that weighs only 600 Ibs., yet can produce some 4,000 Ibs. of thrust for 40 sec. to lift heavily laden planes off short runways...
...Buick-Chevrolet-Pontiac Dealer Lee Anderson of Lake Orion, Mich., who complained that the company permitted employees to but cars at a discount for resale, had his facts wrong. Employees could buy only one car a year, had to promise not to sell it until introduction of the next model. G.M. canceled his franchise only after Anderson publicly and repeatedly "bitterly criticized" G.M. policies. But Anderson was not ruined; between 1946 and 1954, Anderson made $700,000 in salaries and profits...
PRICE CUTS of from 15% to 20% have been made by Du Pont on nylon, Dacron and Orion. Eventual result: lower prices for synthetic rugs and clothes...
Preferred Environment. In Toledo, Orion Ward, 27, got concurrent one-to-15-year terms in the State Penitentiary for burglary and larceny after he interrupted Judge Thomas J. O'Connor, who was about to sentence him to the Mansfield Reformatory, pleaded: "If you don't mind, Your Honor, I'd rather go to the pen; those young crooks at the reformatory might have a bad influence...