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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conductor Talich's dismissal was a measure of public order as natural for a Communist as it would be for a New York cop to take a pistol out of a maniac's hands. Once in power, the Communist de fines crime as whatever may undermine him; he wants to stamp out "crime" be fore it has been committed. This kind of preventive policing is more concerned with thoughts, attitudes, feelings, than it is with overt acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Hunter | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...infuriated faculty members by prompting men regardless of seniority. Though he sometimes gets up at 2 a.m. and works until dawn, he always has time for children. Visitors often come upon him and his four grandchildren ("Gumdrops," he calls them), rolling and shrieking on the floor, while his wife ("Pistol Packin' Mamma") looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prophet on a Trapeze | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Couple of Salesmen. In Denver, Charles Seals dissuaded a stickup man by buying his pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Godse suddenly pulled out a tiny Beretta automatic pistol. He fired three times. One bullet ripped into Gandhi's chest, two into his belly. With hands folded, as if welcoming the blow, in the gesture that is both the Hindu greeting and the Christian attitude of prayer, Gandhi fell backward. He murmured, "Ai Ram, Ai Ram" (0 Rama, 0 Rama), in invocation to the gentle hero of the Hindu pantheon, Gandhi's favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Died. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 78; by an assassin's pistol; in New Delhi (see INTERNATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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