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...Louis Post-Dispatch Crime Reporter Link was charged with first-degree murder after shooting his part-time handyman during an altercation about the burning of his cottage. The Hermann, Mo. jury accepted his plea of self-defense, acquitted...
Rarest item on the program was Sessions' 72-minute, one-act opera, The Trial of Lucullus, with a libretto originally written as a radio play by Germany's Bertolt Brecht. The unrelievedly dissonant work has to do with the plea of the Roman general Lucullus, for admission to the Elysian fields before a jury of citizens. Although it had several appealing orchestral passages and at least one rousing chorus, the opera for the most part is in what Sessions calls his "linear and severe" mood, with many of the vocal parts written in droning monotone...
...strike ended early in the afternoon, when Michael J. Gormley, president of the Carmon's Union issued a plea to the members of the union to return to their jobs. By the evening rush hour all MTA lines were in operation...
...conditions that Mao Tse-tung would attach to any cooperation would demand that Taiwan become a part of Red China . . . We obviously are not going to give up Formosa." On Formosa itself: "We are going to defend Formosa, whatever the cost, whatever the risk." But Bowles did enter a plea for a "broader" U.S. policy toward China that would consider "what will happen to the whole powerful [Communist China] force over the years ... Is there a relaxation of this force, or does it explode? . . . It's not only a problem of trying to contain China. You have the problem...
...President Eisenhower's plea for creation of 40 new judgeships died in Congress-a victim of the same partisanship that had buried earlier Administration requests for additional judgeships. Democrats did not want to establish posts to be filled by a Republican President. In the interest of getting a bill enacted, Ike offered to split the new appointments evenly between the two parties, but still the Democrats stalled. Democratic leaders de cided to bet that the next President would be a Democrat, and that their party would then get a lot more than 50% of the new judgeships...