Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago, the Hong Kong government abruptly changed its ways, apparently realizing at last that what deters Mao is not a kindly feeling towards the victim, but fear of the consequences. British-led police, in simultaneous middle-of-the-night raids, rounded up leaders of the Communist "Study Group," which had been spreading Red propaganda in Hong Kong's movie studios, charged them with "political activities subversive to peace and order" and chucked them out of the colony. The Far Eastern Economic Review, semi-official organ of Hong Kong's financiers, editorially reflected the new boldness: "Formosa must...
Died. George Remus, 78, "King of the Bootleggers," who piled up millions during Prohibition, spent it all beating a murder rap (the victim: his wife, who was trifling with an FBI man); after long illness ; in Covington, Ky. Originally a druggist, German-born Remus became a criminal lawyer, turned to bootlegging after seeing how easily he got acquittals for rich dry-law offenders. So wholesale were his operations that, on one occasion, a freight train chuffed into Cincinnati with 18 full carloads of liquor consigned to Remus. After shooting his wife in cold blood, he successfully defended himself...
Last week, for a while, he came close to getting them back. Acting under a law restoring property confiscated by the Nazis, the Austrian courts ruled that the pioneer fascist was a victim of the fascists and ordered the return to him of 18 castles, hundreds of dwellings, mines, vineyards, 21,000 fertile acres-worth, in all, over...
...premature baby, Patty was a victim of retrolental fibroplasia (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949), an increasingly common cause of infant blindness...
Candidate for Honors. In Seattle, a driver explained to Police Captain R.W. Zottman why he had been driving at 60 m.p.h. on a slippery city street: "I was listening to a traffic safety radio program, and when the announcer asked, 'Will you be America's millionth traffic victim?' I just forgot where I was and started going faster...