Word: accountancy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Submerged by this love story hopelessly entangled by polities is the account of the trial itself. Charles Bickford, the Cardinal in the movie, is one of the few who can act. He, at least, has a variation of facial expression and a change of inflection in his voice. His prosecutors, however, are a series of the most evil looking men that have been seen on the screen since the fall of the movie Gestapo. The similarity of the Hungarian police force and the stereotype Gestapo is, of course, intended, but I felt it was carried to a ludicrous extreme...
...documents (the first three months of 1938); the evidence that the typewriter must have been in the Hisses' possession during that time; Chambers' testimony that Hiss had lent him $400 to buy a car in November 1937, and the withdrawal of $400 from Hiss's bank account just a few days before; the Chamberses' detailed accounts of the Hiss homes which the Chamberses said they had visited during those critical years; the Chamberses' onetime maid who identified Alger and Priscilla Hiss as callers...
...spent months at Los Alamos. No security distinction was made inside the group of visiting British scientists: what one of its members knew, the others knew. While in the U.S., Fuchs was in contact with a Russian agent to whom he passed information, according to the FBI account of Fuchs's recent admissions...
...Pelicans, a Pirate farm team, and make his big-league debut in 1951. The big question is whether money in the bank will spoil his appetite for baseball, as it did with some other bonus babies, notably Outfielder Dick Wakefield (TIME, Jan. 2). Pettit already has $10,000 on account, and will draw down the rest of his bonus in yearly installments...
...Ingrid Bergman had found any of the privacy that her situation clearly called for, it was not the fault of newsmen, photographers and talkative clinic personnel. Reporters got hold of Ingrid's nursing schedule. Obstetrician Dr. Giuseppe Sannicandro gave Rome's radio audience a play-by-play account of the delivery ("We used the same sort of sedative that was administered to Rita Hay worth"). Three jeeploads of the celere, the Rome riot squad, were summoned to pull clambering reporters off the clinic wall and to guard not only the building but also Ingrid's room from...