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...month found the bodies of two gangland rub-out victims. Last week, Judge Gellinoff finally sentenced him, not to 174 years but to 30 to 44. He still faces trial on twelve counts of contempt of court as a result of his trial performance. But it may be that Stool Pigeon Konigsberg has finally found a kind of talking that makes a difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Talk Tactics | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Luce, he was born and spent the first 14 years of his life in Shantung, the home province of Confucius. From his parents, he absorbed the Calvinist faith and the love of his homeland that were to influence his whole life. Before he was six, he stood on a stool in the mission compound and preached a sermon to the assembled amahs and their children. He later said that he could never remember a time when he did not know all about the U.S. Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: He Ran the Course | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...until Mass General Bacteriologist Lawrence J. Kunz examined some of the children's stool specimens did he discover the alarming and unexpected reason: the relatively uncommon bacterium Salmonella cubana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Dubious Dye | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...most places, the town-meeting style of democracy has long since gone the way of the cucking stool. Its heritage is the referendum, an instant, pain less substitute that leaves discussion of controversial issues to the press and their resolution to the curtained conscience of the voter. Sometimes the issues attract as much attention as the candidates, but more often they are so trivial-or so confusing-that they should never have been put on the ballot at all. Last week's election had a few of both kinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Propositions: Confusing Clutter | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...just plain pop. A onetime atheist, he was ordained in 1955, won quick notoriety and ecclesiastical disapproval by hearing "informal" confessions in bars and writing plays peppered with cuss words. He maintains that "you've got to begin with people where they are" and feels that a bar stool can be an effective pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Episcopalians: Beyond the New Orthodoxy | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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