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Beneath statues of the Duke of Wellington, William Pitt the Younger and of himself, 82-year-old Sir Winston Churchill, wearing white tie and tails, the blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest, looked and sounded the proud and unyielding Englishman as he spoke out last week in London's 500-year-old Guildhall. His audience was 550 American and British lawyers and their wives, his theme was that "justice knows no frontiers," and his warning was that "justice is not being achieved" in the U.N. Assembly...
Acquitted last April on charges of fatally drugging an eccentric lady patient who had willed him a Rolls-Royce and a chest of silverware, Dr. John Bodkin Adams last week pleaded guilty to 14 lesser charges. Among them: attempting to conceal two bottles of morphine; obstructing an officer seeking to enforce the Dangerous Drugs Act; forging other doctors' names to National Health Service prescriptions; falsely stating on three cremation certificates that he had no pecuniary interest in the patients' deaths. Total fines: ?2,400 ($6,720). Dr. Adams, 58, wrote out a check for it all, and returned...
...with the facts, Murai confessed that the party, hard pressed for funds after General MacArthur drove it underground in 1950, had decided to set up a string of phony companies on credit, sell goods quickly for all the. cash they could get, and funnel the money into the party chest. Their first move in what they called "Operation Truck Corps" was to get control of the Nippon Institute, chiefly through Murai. Then they set up a network of trading firms, all using the institute's reputation to drum up business. So far, police investigators have turned up 100 Communist...
...Britain's pace-setting Mike Blagrove led the field into the first lap on the dead sprint. In third place was Ibbotson, his chest stuck out like a bantam cock's, his legs and arms weaving perfect circles, running like a mechanical toy. The time for the first quarter-mile: 0:55.3, just 9.5 sec. slower than the world record. "When I heard that time," said Ibbotson later, "I felt sick." At the half-mile mark. the time was a phenomenal 1:55.8. Then Blagrove faded. When the bell clanged at the start of the final quarter-mile...
West Germany's Isaria Maschinenfabrik has sold more than 2,000 of its 10-ft.-long, chest-high Goggomobils in the U.S. this year. The "Goggo" sedan rides on four 10-in. wheels, squeezes in four passengers, does 50 to 60 miles per gallon at speeds of up to 60 m.p.h. on a 17-h.p. engine...