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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion, Beck will take a visitor out back to point out the apartment above his four-car garage. (Actually, his two Lincolns are kept in another garage.) There stay the Compound's rotating bodyguards, constantly on hand because Beck is obsessed with the notion that an unknown "they" are trying to kidnap Dave Beck Jr., a walloping 35-year-old 210-pounder. "If you were out here alone," Beck tells his guest, "you'd be pinned back up against the wall...
...investigation into Western Teamster attempts to take over the city's rackets (see PRESS) : Mayor Terry D. Schrunk, 44, longtime (1949-56) Democratic county sheriff until he won the top job with Teamsters' backing last fall. The charges: 1) accepting, while still sheriff, a bribe "in amount unknown" (commonly put at $500) from Teamster-linked Gambler Clifford Bennett during a raid on Bennett's after-hours joint in 1955, and 2) perjury before the grand jury by denying he took the bribe. Testifying before the McClellan committee, Schrunk had also denied the bribery charge despite sworn testimony...
...1930s or the days of the 1871 Commune, is the emergence of the mobs. Into the Champs Elysées they came one afternoon last week, 5,000 youths, war veterans and rightist sympathizers. After a small group had placed a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, they crowded toward the office of the weekly L'Express, which has been attacking French army excesses in Algeria (TIME, April 1). Some shouted, "Mendès to the gallows"; others cried, "Down with Mollet." They carried placards: "Are Our Deputies Still French?" A grenade...
...Japan's new Nikon camera, which will be on the market in four months, has a refinement unknown even to present German 35-mm. cameras: a battery-operated motor for fast shooting which can be pre-set to take any specific number of pictures at either two or three shots per second. Price: about...
Gauguin kept going toward the unknown and soared to fame-posthumously. Bernard, becoming enamored of Italian Renaissance masters, and veering toward mysticism, turned back toward safer paths and sank to obscurity. Though he lived to a ripe 72 (and was a key figure in bringing Van Gogh's work to public attention), Bernard never again painted with the vigor and originality of the Pont-Aven days, which ended half a century before his death...