Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joliet, Ill.. prison, where he was sen tenced to life in 1924 for his part in the wanton slaying of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, 48-year-old Nathan Leopold felt that he had paid his debt to society and asked for parole. Said he: "I have changed completely. My personality, even my physical being has changed. No cell that was in my body at the time of the crime is there today. I have learned my lesson.&" The parole board is expected to announce its decision sometime this month...
...agency of the Civil Service Commission, the LRB was set up in 1947 by Harry Truman. Chaired by a Connecticut Republican, ex-Sen ator Hiram Bingham, it is now composed of 31 members who sit in panels of three or more. While the board's personnel is publicly known, the names of members reviewing particular cases are kept confidential...
...latest ology is compounded of equal parts of science fiction, dianetics (with "auditing," "preclears" and engrams), and plain jabberwocky.* Hubbard has preached his gospel to the British; he spent last week drumming for converts in Philadelphia. Awed by his own accomplishments, Hubbard has awarded himself the degree of "D. Sen."-doctor of Scientology...
...Senate, the key man will, of course, be Sen. Joe McCarthy. Only he will no longer be a lone wolf. As chairman of the Committee on Executive Expenditures, he will not only have broad powers to subpoena and investigate all Government officials, but can hold back the paychecks of employees whose loyalty does not fit into his peculiar mold...
...Republicans, moreover, greatly exaggerate the effect of corruption on the workings of the Government. It takes a strange distortion of cause and effect to infer, with Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Nixon, that corruption has interfered with our drive toward world peace and been a root cause of the setbacks in our foreign policy...