Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...participate in the replanting of the Tree of Life. Mosig calls first upon the 225 elect whom he subdivides into the Managers, the Influencers, and the Scientists. Among these are Douglas MacArthur, Henry Luce, Pandit Nehru, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Plus XII, General Ridgway, Eddie Rickenbacker, J. Edgar Hoover, King Farouk, Walt Disney, Greta Garbo, Evita Peron, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy Thompson. He claims that he sent a copy of his pamphlet to each one of these...
That morning, two months ago, Judge Bernstein did listen-to stories of whippings, blackjackings and assorted cruelties that were hard to believe. But he decided to do some investigating. By last week, he had learned enough to haul Superintendent George R. Ridgway and five of his employees into court in one of the most sordid scandals Arizona has known in years...
...were exaggerating. But under crossexamination, they conceded that most of the details were true. Guard Ramirez admitted he had used a blackjack. Guards Terry Quinn and Albert Allen admitted that they had dragged two boys behind a woodpile and taken turns lashing them with a fan belt. Even Superintendent Ridgway confessed he used the whip. "But none of the boys that I know of limped after they were whipped." Besides, said the defense, the law allows "reasonable corporal punishment," and Fort Grant is certainly reasonable...
...week's end, Superior Court Judge Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr. still had to give his verdict on just how reasonable Fort Grant is. But whatever he decides, Ridgway & Co. still have troubles. Last week, by order of Attorney General McGrath, FBI agents were investigating Fort Grant. The incident that interested them was a report that involved a twelve-year-old runaway who had been clubbed, whipped, hung by the neck until almost strangled, then hauled down and finally forced at whip's-end to run in front of a truck until he collapsed...
...Said Ridgway's headquarters: "So the cycle continues. Every step forward will be followed by a step backward until Moscow is convinced that the final decision for Korea must be made without delay." This statement, designed to put all the onus on Moscow, unintentionally revealed the state of mind that now prevails in Tokyo and in Washington: the U.S. no longer has the initiative. Peace, stalemate or war-and how much or how little of either-is Moscow's choice, to be made at Moscow's convenience...