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Happy to Try. Tall, hollow-eyed Rudolf Hess has been a prisoner ever since the night of May 10, 1941, when he shocked the world by parachuting from a Messerschmitt fighter onto the Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland. His mission, he claimed, was to end the war between "the great Nordic nations" Britain and Germany. Hess did not have the approval of Hitler for his peacemaking mission, and indeed was quickly denounced by the Führer as "crazy." Hess remains convinced of the sacredness of his mission. "True, I achieved nothing," he wrote. "I could...
...birth control clinics of France and Scotland, she listened, watched, learned, then returned to publish, write and edit a magazine called Woman Rebel. Its motto: "No Gods, No Masters." Her first editorial promised subsequent stories on birth control; postal inspectors grabbed up copies, and she was indicted on nine counts of sending birth control information through the mails. Deciding she needed time to prepare her defense, she left her three children with a nurse. Without court permission, without a passport, and under the alias "Bertha Watson," she left on a midnight train for Montreal and thence to Europe...
Asking Mitzi. Britain last week was in the midst of the greatest manhunt in its history. Object of the hunt was Harry Maurice Roberts, 30, who is wanted "for questioning" in connection with the slaying of three London policemen on Aug. 12. To find him, Scotland Yard has mobilized every available man, questioned Roberts' estranged wife (a Manchester stripper known as "Mitzi the Pocket Venus") and all his friends. Roberts' mug shot has appeared on the front page of nearly every edition of nearly every newspaper in the land, together with police warnings that he is armed...
Mother's Plea. By week's end Scotland Yard had received and investigated more than 3,500 reports of Harry's whereabouts. They had arrested two others in connection with the cop murders, put his mother on television to ask him to give himself up. But there was still no sign of Harry...
...Brabham began to show up front end first-at the finish line. He beat Stirling Moss for the world championship in 1959, won it again in 1960, and by the start of this year had won a total of seven Grand Prix races-more than any active driver except Scotland's own two-time world champion, Jimmy Clark (TIME cover, July...