Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Like most publications, TIME receives some letters strongly disagreeing with the editors' presentation of the news. There aren't too many of them, but we take great pains to answer them to the best of our ability. Lately, I have found an interesting change in tone in these letters...
Eugene Braunsdorf lived, to be charged with murder. Last week, in Detroit recorder's court, a jury was faced with the question which has plagued law-abiding humans for centuries-what is justice for the distraught who kill in the name of mercy? The jury's answer: "Not guilty by reason of temporary insanity at the time of the killing." Spectators in the courtroom cheered; some of the jurors wept. It seemed certain that broken, weeping Eugene Braunsdorf-who had been judged sane when he was ordered to stand trial for murder-would be quickly freed after...
Johannesburg gave Strydom his answer. Despite the chill winter weather, 50,000 shouting citizens, white and black, crowded round the city hall to cheer for Smuts. The old man stood slim, erect and bareheaded on a dais shaped like a birthday cake, and told South Africans: "Cast fear out of your hearts and put an end to bickering and quarreling. Concentrate on the great things that are on the doorstep...
...pipeline begin, they wavered in their faith. Soon they began to drift away from meetings in Cianfone's smithy. Last December Cianfone sent a registered letter to Togliatti. Wrote he: "This once flourishing Communist section is dwindling to nothingness. What shall I do?" He got no answer...
Cianfone wrote again, this time to Communist Labor Leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio. No answer. Complained Cianfone: "The party hasn't helped me. They leave me to fight alone." On May Day, 1950, Cianfone was too dispirited to organize a Communist demonstration. Instead, he went off to the local wine shop, where he met his old friend Coriddi. Full of sympathy, Coriddi presented Blacksmith Cianfone with a bouquet of mauve cyclamens. Cianfone was touched. They had a drink...