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Manhattan's sordid basketball scandal kept right on rolling. Last week police arrested the 18th college player (and the eighth from Long Island University) to be accused of fixing games in Madison Square Garden. The player: Jackie Goldsmith, 31, described by the D.A.'s office as "the essential key . . . responsible for the corruption of more basketball players than any single person." The specific charge: offering bribes totaling $3,500 to four L.I.U. players...
...jury that judged them spent seven hours and 42 minutes deliberating the sordid record of how the A-bomb-and such other secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
Sometimes, aided by TIME Correspondents from other cities, he tied the testimony to other evidence on country-wide crime organizations. He outlined the legal steps needed to nail down perjury, contempt and deportation charges. He also sketched from memory the sordid story of Teapot Dome and other great congressional investigations from the past...
...Great Strength. Yet through the 162 years of struggle, the vitality of France, of both Frances, remained. Through the ridiculous republics and the comic restorations, through the financial swindles and the sordid half-hearted colonial adventures, the France of peasant, artisan, artist-the France of the civilized common man-has remained. This France has survived invasion, defeat, and costly victory. It has even survived French politics...
Didn't she realize that she had committed a crime against the U.S.? "I think it's wrong," she admitted. "I've always known it was wrong." She had been talked into the whole sordid affair, she explained, by her husband's sister, Mrs. Rosenberg. Seated before her in court were short, plump Mrs. Rosenberg, her pale, spectacled husband, Julius Rosenberg, and worried-looking Morton Sobell-all three accused of wartime espionage, punishable by the maximum penalty of death...