Word: sons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excited murmuring filled the courtroom. The point was obvious: if the defense could prove that the Hisses did not even have the typewriter when the documents were typed (in the early months of 1938), Hiss's case would look fairly secure. Mrs. Catlett's young son, Mike, recalled that it was an old Woodstock. From under the defense table, Defense Lawyer Edward McLean dramatically dragged a battered machine. Was this it? Mike pecked at a couple of keys and decided that...
...crossexamination, Prosecutor Murphy went after the Catletts relentlessly. When did the Hisses give them the machine? Mrs. Catlett's memory proved vague on the point. Her son Pat placed the time at around December 1937. Shortly after he got it he had taken the machine to a shop on K Street to be repaired. Murphy roared at Pat: "What if I told you that the shop on K Street wasn't opened for business until September 1938?" Pat said finally: "I don't know the time...
Though the housemaid plainly did not know it, she and the Queen Mother, who tends to patronize Belgium's Communists, probably saw eye to eye about the election's dominant issue. That issue was "the royal question": should the Queen Mother's exiled son, King Leopold III, be recalled to the throne from which he had been barred by Parliament...
Hounds to Jeeps. Giovanni passed most of his beautiful things on to his younger son Alessandro, who justified his father's confidence. His most notable undertaking was the conversion into farmland of Lake Fucino-a problem which had been, on the agenda since the reign of the Emperor Claudius I (B.C. 10-A.D. 54). "Either I will dry up Fucino," said Alessandro, "or it will dry me up." After eleven years, Alessandro won; the family still rents out most of Fucino's 35,000 acres to tenants at $40 an acre a year...
...week, along with the columns of results, newspapers carried reports of this year's tragic wave of student suicides-of 18-year-old Varada Bajulu who tried to kill himself by swallowing powdered glass; of Shankar Bhosle, 21, who hanged himself; of the lawyer's son, only 15 years old, who climbed the University of Bombay's 300-foot clock tower and threw himself...