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...walls and sentenced six persons in Larissa to jail terms of 13 months to five years for speaking unfavorably of Greece's new masters. It scheduled for this week the trial of one of its star prisoners, Leftist Andreas Papandreou, 48, who is accused of conspiring to commit high treason as the alleged leader of the Aspida plot. There was also an indication that Andreas' father, former Premier George Papandreou, might be brought to trial for treason. An approved rightist daily in Athens last week carried a story linking George to the plot...
...after Selma came Johnson's finest hour of putting down lawlessness: the trial of the three Klansmen for gunning down Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo on Route 80 after the march. A Lowndes County jury had acquitted Collie Leroy Wilkins, though an FBI informant testified that he saw Wilkins commit the murder...
...newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scurrying to pry out their share of the secret. An aging writer thinks the governess' story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance throws himself at her feet, in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love for him. Her former employer, the father of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. In this play, more nearly than in any other dramatic work of Pirandello's, the naked truth is exposed, but it destroys the heroine since mankind...
...training and employment by Kodak. Amid mounting pressure, a Kodak assistant vice president designated to hold talks with FIGHT signed a document last Dec. 20, bowing to its demands. No sooner was that agreement reached, however, than Kodak repudiated it as "unauthorized." The company explained that it could not commit itself in advance to hiring a specific number of workers. Nor would it grant any single organization exclusive recruitment powers. Despite the company's explanations, Kodak's employment policies became an issue that embroiled the city's church and civic leaders. Warned Florence ominously: "What happens...
...Thick Skin. Konrad Adenauer was born in 1876, when Bismarck was governing a recently united German nation. At 29, he was refused a life insurance policy as a bad risk because of weak lungs; at 68, his Gestapo jailers feared that he might commit suicide because, they reasoned, at that age, he "had nothing more to expect from life." He grew up in the Rhineland, with a Rhenish and Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne...