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...this century there has never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio in France) became Pope before answering his plea for a splendid crop...
...adopted by almost all of the major nations of the world, and the United States can be saved from a similar fate only if voluntary organizations prove adequate. This is the thesis on which John R. Maddax, executive vice president of the Blue Cross of Northeast Ohio, based his plea for an American Blue Cross in a speech to the American Hospital Association. According to Maddix, such an organization would have Presidential appointees from the fields of agriculture, labor, and management as trustees, and would be able to provide nationwide benefits on a service basis, with wider rural and urban...
...nine days the murder trial of Berlin-born Gunther Fritz Podola, 30, was postponed while a London jury considered a plea the like of which had never before been heard in an English court of law (TIME, Sept. 21). The plea: in "the very severe fright" caused by the violence of his arrest, Podola had lost his memory, and so was unfit to plead to the charge of shooting a London cop. Last week, after a procession of experts had offered conflicting medical opinion on whether Podola was, in fact, suffering from "hysterical amnesia," the jury finally decided that...
...through 20 minutes of invective against the leaders of Nasser's U.A.R. ("gangsters and robbers") and praise for Iraq's President Abdul Karim Kassem ("leader of the whole Arab nation"). At last, airily dismissing a defense counsel's request to be allowed to make a final plea to the court, Mahdawi got down to business, passed death sentences on able Brigadier Nadhem Tabakchali and three other Iraqi army officers accused of participating in last March's Mosul revolt against Kassem...
This impassioned and vague plea has its interesting aspects, but seems fatuous. It implies, or rather assumes, the existence of a determined and self-conscious attitude among the writers of post-adolescent love fiction. These tales are obviously intensely personal things and their authors doubtless believe that they are probing the situation to the very limit, which they very well might be doing. It seems a bit ludicrous to hope that a new moral framework (if indeed the whole idea has any meaning), will come from the pens of a group of writers whose entire effect comes from the charm...