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...drama reached a climax of sorts when white-haired Defense Attorney Joseph Wicks in his closing plea quoted the First Commandment in ringing tones, then stared at the Goldmarks to demand, "Would a Communist say there is no other God? What is God to an atheistic Communist?" Mrs. Goldmark, tears streaming down her face, rushed out of the crowded courtroom...
...much as 19%. Increasing imports and higher-priced exports have turned a $3.5 billion favorable trade balance into what may be a $1 billion deficit this year, and public spending, instead of staying low to counterbalance rising costs, itself rose 11% last year. Warned Marjolin, in a plea for spending hold-downs and coordination: "We cannot live in a permanent state of overheating...
Dialing the Life Line Centre brings aid of almost any kind. Switchboard operators can dispatch "trouble teams" in radio cars to answer the desperate pleas of alcoholics, unwed mothers and potential suicides. If a plea requires specialized help, Life Line can call upon a battery of professional men ranging from lawyers to psychologists to podiatrists. For cases that need follow-through, the organization can use the 14 homes, hospitals and hostels of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission, which Walker also heads. It even conducts group therapy for many of the disturbed people who come its way, although Walker...
Sidney Goldfarb offers a non-fiction counterpart to this literary gingerbread in his essay on Mexican braceros, an exploited captive labor force in southern California. We are glad to see this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense...
...Balsar, whose crime was a $4 robbery, felt he was being punished too severely and took his case to the State Supreme Court. The higher court agreed that there was some merit in his plea and ruled that he be resentenced. In a fit of generosity, Judge Stewart Lynch reduced the sentence to 15 years and 10 lashes. Balsar will be flogged...