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...himself. The word "degrade" has evaporated into limbo, although it still survives in our sister culture in Great Britain. As the law now stands, despite some wonderful writing by judges in the United States Supreme Court over the decades, if any person is asked by a committee--"did you commit embezzlement or sodomy or any other anti-social act thirty years ago, there is no honest constitutional legal excuse for not making answer. The constitutional protection would not apply where the statute of limitation has run against the offense. The witness must be in danger of a prosecution not barred...
...M.I.T. case broke into the headlines on April 22, when William T. Martin, head of the Mathematics department and Isador Amdur, professor of Chemistry, told the Un-American Activities Commit in open session that they had joined the Communist party in 1938 but quit in 1946 and 1944 respectively. Martin named Norman Levinson, associate professor of Mathematics, and Professors Arguimbau and Struik as members of the cell...
...youngster named Erich Reuthner joined the band and told his mates that his uncle had a cache of money at home. The Panther Bande surrounded the uncle's house, called out his name, and when he appeared, shot and killed him. Overcome by remorse. Erich tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the stomach; in his hospital bed later, he told police all. A month later the Panthers were all in jail once more...
...Valle confessed an extraordinary story: deep in debt, he had wanted to commit suicide by blowing up the plane. After first trying to get a dupe to take his place, he decided to kill himself in a way that would look accidental, so that his family could collect $100,000 insurance...
Around the Pentagon, as well as among flyers in Korea, there was considerable wisecracking about the offer. In Britain's House of Lords, an excitable Labor peer announced that he regarded it as dastardly to bribe the enemy to commit treason...