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...while thousands jeered, a fearless Scot named William Wallace, the heart and soul of his country's resistance to the conquering English, was dragged through the streets of London behind a horse, hanged by the neck, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, decapitated with a bloody great cleaver, hacked into four chunks and sent home to Scotland severally...
Dismay. The man whom these churchmen were expected to nominate is the Rev. Patrick Rodger of Scot land's Episcopal Church, choice of the council's powerful 16-man executive committee at a meeting held in Tutzing, Germany, last August. There were quiet complaints even then about Rodger, a scholarly theologian who has been on the council's staff, as head of its Faith and Order Department, only since 1961. He is well liked in Western ecumenical circles but virtually unknown to Orthodoxy and the "new churches" of Asia and Africa, which are playing an increasingly important...
...impressed by the court's willingness to make this conscientious journey into the past. A doubting world has long since been convinced of the determination of most West Germans to redress the evil of Nazidom. Nevertheless, a fear remains that many of Hitler's villains may go scot-free.* Under the German penal code, the statute of limitation for murder runs out after 20 years. That means that no further prosecution of Nazi killers can be instituted after May 8, 1965, or 20 years after V-E day, the first date on which prosecutions were theoretically possible. What...
...nuclear device "in the near future," warned that within ten years the Chicoms would have the wherewithal to deliver an atomic assault on their enemies. And in New York City, the U.S. Government shamefacedly had to withdraw its case against two top-ranking Soviet spies and send them home scot free...
...Speedy Scot: the $91,381.71 Realization Trot, a 1 1/16-mile stakes event for four-year-olds, at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Driver Ralph Baldwin maneuvered the 1-to-5 favorite into first place at the half-mile pole, sat back and let him breeze home a length ahead, thus making Speedy Scot the first standardbred to retire the Founder's Plate, awarded to the horse that wins major stakes races at the Roosevelt at two, three and four years...