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...Elsie Phillips, shabby and 56, sat on the porch of her dingy Los Angeles home, and wept...
...Communists were less hostile to foreign observers than they had been during the hasty trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. The world watched the slow, orderly proceedings at Sofia through 25 foreign correspondents and two official U.S. and British observers. But as one churchman after another took the stand and wept, shouted and whispered his "confession" and his "guilt," the world no more understood this trial than it had understood the cardinal...
...elder statesman, last week solemnly opened the Assembly. When the band struck up Hatikvah (the Israeli national anthem) during the ceremonies, the tired old (74) man seemed off in a dream; a military aide had to nudge him before he came to life again. Facing the Assembly, he wept. Said he: "It is our people that once gave the whole world a spiritual message fundamental to civilization . . . The world is listening to hear whether a new message will go forth from Zion...
...suit against her father and stepmother. They wanted to "railroad" her to an insane asylum, she said, purportedly to get their hands on her cash. One day she used jujitsu on an opposing lawyer; the next day she "became the traditionally soft woman-tears and all ... broke down . . . and wept freely . . . several jurors and spectators wept with...
...that they had already learned a good deal about the facts of democratic life. They adroitly outmaneuvered the inevitable leftist clique and elected their officers by pressure-proof secret balloting. Chemist Naoto Kameyama of Tokyo University was chosen president. Second vice president is world-famed Physicist Yoshio Nishina, who wept when U.S. soldiers demolished his cyclotron...