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...first days as Attorney General. When Dwight Eisenhower took office, he found on his desk the plea for clemency of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Brownell recommended against clemency. The Rosenberg execution was set for the Friday of June 19, 1953, at dusk because the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown. Worldwide pressure against the execution was tremendous, the Pope used his good offices for mercy, more than 5,000 pickets chanted party-line slogans in front of the White House. Brownell quietly advised the President to go ahead with the execution unless the Rosenbergs showed a willingness to talk...
...Sharm el Sheikh. UNEF fired an answering rocket in recognition. "A historic day!" cried Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol as the tanker began pumping its cargo into newly finished tanks on the barren shore. Israeli crowds went wild with excitement, dancing the Hora, and the national radio interrupted its Sabbath music program to announce the great news...
...coincidence of the Sabbath, the inhabitants cannot, of course, help salvage the ship. Under the cover of night however, they helpfully remove excess cargo before the ship sinks. The film revolves around this incident and has little other plot. "Tight Little Island" merely follows the consequences of the whiskey ship's wrecking, which, by the way, is supposed to have actually happened...
...Nahal Oz, the Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews who could not express their feelings at public meetings on the Sabbath, rabbis intoned special prayers in Israel's synagogues for the safety of their country...
...world made Adventists a prickly people; preaching the imminence of the world's end made them a missionizing one. Today there are 1,006,218 baptized (by total immersion) adult Adventists throughout the world (277,162 in the U.S.), with 5,363 ordained ministers and 1,320,883 Sabbath-school members. Members contributed $67,919,368 to their church work in 1955, an average of nearly $200 each;* they give support to 230 medical units (employing 382 physicians), and run 42 publishing houses which turn out 377 periodicals and some 75 books a year...