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Five months to the day after Gay's disappearance, Camb went on trial for his life. He sat in the dock at the Hampshire Assizes in a shedlike courtroom of canvas and plywood, incongruous amidst stained glass and granite pillars, within the 13th Century Great Hall of Winchester Castle. Most of the space in the public gallery was occupied by fashionably dressed women, many of whom appeared daily at 5:30 a.m. to make sure of a seat. The press made much of this welcome diversion from the European crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Don Jimmy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Nastiest Ole Man." Last week, hunched in the prisoners' dock, earphones clamped to his seemingly petrified bald head, his body weirdly stiffened (he suffers from arthritis of the spine and hardening of the arteries), he was still a perfect bureaucrat. His only concern was an efficient defense. He worked furiously, scribbling endless notes of rebuttal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Bureaucrat | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...party members there must be no leisurely and luxurious life. We must be so active that we feel dead if we have no work to do." In U.S.-occupied South Korea, Kim's followers responded promptly. A brass band turned up playing the Internationale in the South Korean dock town of Pusan. Rail and telegraph lines were cut. One twelve-car train was wrecked, and 50 locomotives were put out of action by saboteurs. In scattered clashes with South Korean police, 47 were killed, 150 arrested. At the height of the three-day wave, a group calling itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Portent | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...When stung, stand still and look: the antidote is always found with it, namely the leaf of the yellow dock. The cure is instant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Higher & Higher. The new facilities, to be completed late this year, will solve some, but not all, of Buenaventura's problems. They will allow more ships to dock at the same time and will provide storage for the goods they unload. But about 30,000 tons of cargo are unloaded monthly at Buenaventura, only 25,000 tons can be carried out. Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin cabled this description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Port of Call | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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