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Technology marches on. even in gangland. The automobile made possible the invention of The Ride-in which the rider could be transported alive to a place convenient for his execution. But there was still the body, and the wearisome investigation that it could bring. The next advance was the concrete...
Adolf Eichmann was dead and his ashes thrown into the Mediterranean, but his execution will probably stir debate for years to come. The first critical postmortem came from Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber. All along, Buber had been opposed to the trial because it cast Israel in the role of both...
There is much to be done. If one can ever sit back and relax about an educational problem, he cannot do it yet about Gen Ed. But there is room for a feeling of accomplishment. In the words of one professor of long standing, "General Education, for all its defects...
The Salan verdict inspired the attorneys of his condemned deputy, ex-General Jouhaud, to appeal for a new trial. While the French Supreme Court took the matter under advisement, Jouhaud was granted a stay of execution. But there were suggestions that the angry De Gaulle might still insist on his...
Even Frederic Donner, a man with an ingrained horror of boasting or "putting on side," lapses into superlatives when he talks of his company. Says he: "We lead the industry in plant, in engineering organization and in dealer organization." And, like everyone else, he attributes G.M.'s pre-eminence...