Word: simon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pierre-Henri Simon, a left-wing Roman Catholic intellectual, recently stirred Paris with a controversial book on Algeria, Contre la Torture. Simon reproduces affidavits by torture victims, statements by French priests and extracts of journals of French army and police officers, and he quotes a letter from a soldier: "On the afternoon of Dec. 3 some gendarmes invited some soldiers to watch tortures of two Arabs arrested the night before. The first torture consisted in suspending the two men, entirely nude, by the feet, hands tied behind their backs, and plunging their heads into a pail of water for long...
...Simon reports that one prominent Arab swore that his interrogation by a French army major and two captains lasted 57 hours, during which he was tortured by electrodes attached to his fingers, ears and testicles, later by immersion in water and beating with a riding crop. Concludes angry Author Simon: "We, who have fought against the racist monstrosity . . . are today conquered by Hitler, if our nation has adopted his ideas and methods...
...From Simon Jaglom, New York importer-exporter, Silberstein took another option on 49,750 shares at $47.75 v. $43 market price. Profit to Jaglom...
...Love or Perish, by Smiley Blanton (Simon & Schuster; 164,000 copies sold so far). Puckish Smiley Blanton, 74, has for 19 years spread psychiatric good cheer belowstairs at the Marble Collegiate Church in the clinic which he founded with Dr. Peale and still heads. More than most psychiatrists, he understands that the meaning of love extends beyond the ability to make it. But his book is a hodge-podge of marital, parental and occupational anecdotes...
Publisher Simon worked out his own grading system, awarding a top of five points for "excellent'' press coverage of state legislatures, and from his survey concluded that New Hampshire and Utah had the best coverage, with 4.71 points each. Lowest were Delaware (1.33). which has three daily newspapers, and Montana (1.77) with 1 8. most of which are either controlled by giant Anaconda copper company or subject to its influence. Complained one Montana representative: "We are victims of a completely controlled press, which edits, slants or completely omits any news coverage at will.'' Most weeklies...