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...Sept. 18), the only other ex-Congressman behind bars walked out to freedom. As wartime head of the House Military Affairs Committee, highhanded old Andrew Jackson May had accepted $53,000 from the notorious Garsson brothers in return for pressuring through their munitions contracts, had used his power to render many another shady service to his friends. This week he was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Ashland, Ky., and headed home to Prestonburg, after serving nine months and 13 days of an eight-to-24-month sentence. Grounds for the parole: good behavior, bad health...
...table (unless the North Koreans were invited, too). He knew that if he ruled against the delegation's admission, the Council majority would vote him down; so Malik simply refused to hand down a ruling. Tsiang burst out: "After a point of order is raised, the president must render a ruling...
Later the Witnesses thunderously approved a resolution to forswear subversion and "as long as this world lasts, render to Caesar what is Caesar's." The Witnesses, said Witness President Nathan H. Knorr, are "pointing neither east nor west, but heavenward...
Time to Think. "In easy cases," explained a local specialist in the law, when the evidence was all in, "the judges render a decision immediately. In hard cases they have to have time to think. This has been a hard case...
...Security Council forthwith settled down to prolonged parliamentary discussion. After four hours, the U.S. draft resolution was passed by a vote of 9-to-0, with Yugoslavia abstaining. The resolution significantly called on all member nations to "render every assistance" to U.N. in carrying out the cease-fire order...