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...hold it down and you'd get it across the knuckles. I want you to know that hurt. It was something less than pleasant." Davies' grandfather, chief of police in East Grand Forks, across the North Dakota line from Crookston, often let Ronald tag along into court. Says Judge Davies: "I was absolutely fascinated watching that municipal judge and listening to those lawyers. From then on, that's all I ever wanted...
...Harvard and Columbia before taking over following the death of Paul Block Sr. in 1941, dark-haired, retiring Paul Block, 46, dispassionately analyzed Toledo's "evil hoax" both in the evening Blade and its sister paper, the stodgy morning Times (41,841), which had also avoided the racial tag but stirred few complaints. (The Block-owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is published by younger brother William, has the same racial policy...
Manhattan newspapers' avoidance of the racial tag posed a more delicate problem for editors. Nepal's U.N. Delegate Rishikesh Shaha was stabbed and robbed in Central Park last week, and six of the city's seven major dailies (exception: the Daily News) omitted any racial description of the muggers. But then some of the U.N.'s Asian and African delegates began murmuring that brown-skinned Ambassador Shaha had been attacked because of his color. The conscientious New York Times promptly reported that both thugs were Negroes, while the Herald Tribune described one of them...
...Legacy. Behind him, the little (5 ft. 7 in., 135 Ibs.) President left prosperity and surface stability, but no sound political philosophy, organization or heir apparent. In the three years since his rag-tag army and Nicaragua-based air force (six F-47s) forced out the Red-led regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Castillo was the country's undisputed ruler-shy and diffident in manner, often indecisive as an administrator, but capable on occasion of moving with stern severity...
Into the booming foreign-car sales race Italy's Fiat last week rolled its 116-in.-long, two-passenger "New 500" model, which it expects to start exporting to the U.S. this autumn. Fiat set an $800 price tag on the 500, hopes to accelerate its opening sales push in the U.S. (TIME, April 22), which sold 1,200 standard Fiats in the first two months...