Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indigestible tales of international romance in Manhattan's subways. Archie failed; Judy Coplon was convicted and sentenced to 40 months to ten years in prison (TIME, July 11). Last week, as Judy prepared to go on trial in Manhattan on an additional charge of conspiracy, Archie Palmer was still his corny, arm-waving self, but he had discovered a new angle. Teamed up with a shrewd Manhattan attorney named Abraham Pomerantz, Archie complained that the FBI had illegally tapped telephones and intercepted mail to get its evidence...
Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan turned to embarrassed U.S. attorneys for an explanation; the attorneys turned to the FBI. It was true, the FBI admitted reluctantly, that it had done so, and was, in fact, still intercepting the mail of Judy's codefendant, a suspended Russian U.N. employee named Valentin Gubichev. The FBI also had planted a microphone in the Justice Department office, where Judy worked as an analyst and, according to the Government, collected U.S. secrets for transmission to Gubichev...
...chief, it had been quite a lifetime. He had thrived on catastrophe, some of which he had brought about himself, had outlived a dozen comrades, some of whom had died by his order. Despite divisions in his dominions and despite his advancing years, Septuagenarian Joe Stalin was still going strong...
...also went behind the Iron Curtain, to Czechoslovakia and Poland, where the Communist authorities officially declared that such gifts from America were unnecessary, and had so intimidated their recipients that many sent the parcels back unopened. Some 66,000 of the parcels went to Austria, where Christmas 1949 would still be harsh and bitter, and about 90,000 went to France, where at least outwardly Noel was as bright as ever. Some 685,000 found their way to the austerity-ridden country of Dickens and plum pudding, which celebrated heartily this year-even if it still did not eat very...
...fifth postwar Christmas found the free world steadily recovering, but it was a recovery that still depended on the U.S. Santa Claus. More perhaps than the larger bounties of Marshall Plan aid, and of loans negotiated by diplomats and bankers, it was the gift parcel from America which had become a sign of the world's continuing need, and a symbol of American generosity...