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...conscience-pricked judge advocate keeps suggesting that Wirz had a moral obligation to disobey such monstrous military orders-a ticklish thesis to propound before a military court. But after Wirz insists on taking the stand, the judge advocate wrests permission to raise the moral issue. The trial thereupon erupts into something beyond cross-examination or even debate. It becomes an indictment, on the judge advocate's part, that bypasses the law, and a hysterical mine-not-to-reason-why defense on Wirz's part that circumvents morality. Wirz, most likely a preordained scapegoat, was convicted and hanged...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold thereupon flew out to see Nasser, reported back to the Israelis that Cairo would have no objections to letting cargoes pass in future if title to Israeli exports had already passed to foreign purchasers, and if imports were not yet technically Israeli-owned. Israel disliked this compromise, but observed it. Last week a Greek freighter fulfilling Hammarskjold's conditions-Israeli cement purchased f.o.b. Haifa by an Eritrean importer-was stopped in Port Said. Hammarskjold's own prestige and assurances were thus at stake. As Hammarskjold set off on a tour of Africa, he scheduled...
...Wreath. In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County. After leasing a few trucks to rumrunners, he abandoned a $50,000-a-year automobile business for bootlegging-and thereupon set in motion a relentless procession of events that led to his death. With a partner, Matt Kolb, he carved out an empire of suburban speakeasies, controlled a big slot-machine franchise, sold 18,000 bottles of illicit beer each week, boasted that he made $1,000,000 a year. He also made enemies: to Al Capone and his henchmen, Touhy...
...Since last summer the National Democrats have been fighting a fierce battle with the Communists for the loyalties of Iraqi farmers. The Communists won the first skirmish by getting a Redlined onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past the Defense Ministry in a five-hour parade celebrating Kassem's recovery. Obviously much more wary of assassination than before, Kassem kept well away from...
Midway in the television show, Moderator Susskind turned to Fred Cook with a question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he proceeded to tell how, during the investigations, a "high city official" had offered Gleason $75 to $100 a week for laying off. "We can put your wives on the payroll," the city official supposedly said to Gleason, "and you won't have to do anything for it, just stop...