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...moving addendum to the crisp legal language of his order, Sey bourn Lynne made a personal plea for peace...
Sensible & Serene. On the same day that Judge Lynne delivered his plea, a young NegroCleve McDowell, 21-walked into the law school building at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Nine months before, two men died and dozens were injured when another Negro, James Meredith, enrolled at that school. Last week it was all peace and quiet, law and order in Oxford...
...chance in April 1959 when Castro visited Montreal on his famous trip to the U.S. and Canada. There to meet Fidel at the airport was Schoeters, a one-man student welcoming committee from the University of Montreal. Three months later, in answer to Castro's plea for "technicians," Schoeters, his wife and ten university students flew to Cuba. For two weeks they toured the island as Castro's guests. On his return, Schoeters excitedly informed friends that "Castro is practically a god." There was another trip in 1960, and this time he stayed several months, working, he said...
...week Alam's anticorruption drive was in full swing. In Teheran, a military tribunal sentenced General Abdullah Hedayat, Iran's first four-star general and once a close adviser of the Shah, to two years in prison for embezzling money on military housing contracts, brushed aside his plea for appeal with the brusque explanation that "more charges are pending." The former boss of the Teheran Electricity Board was in solitary confinement for five years; cases were in preparation against an ex-War Minister and twelve other generals for graft. Said one observer: "The Shah has got the grafters...
...delay intensifies his guilt; his guilt mounts to anguish, and his anguish drives him to the far edge of sanity. The moment-to-moment danger, tension and exhilaration of the play is not that Hamlet will kill the king, but that he will lose his reason. His silent plea is Lear's spoken "Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven." By insisting on being cool and levelheaded, Grizzard removes the nervous system of the play; by insisting that Hamlet be normal, he makes he one demand that the most complex character in English drama cannot meet...