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Bubnov was luckier than Nikolai Voznesensky, a Politburo member who disappeared in 1949 after his book on economics was denounced by Mikhail Suslov, a member of today's Presidium. Last week Moscow learned that Stalin had personally written the end to the Voznesensky story. It was one word-"execution...
It was Mao who set the pattern of the Chinese Communist terror in his 1949 tract, On People's Democratic Dictatorship. Said Mao: "The reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinion." One of Mao's lieutenants, writing in the Peking Current Affairs, wryly but...
With this army of Communists, Lo and his comrades carried out one of the greatest collections of purges in history. They had the Russian experience to lean upon, and they were thus able to avoid the fumbling experiments in mass liquidation made by the early Soviet Chekists. But they worked...
With the House of Commons already on record for abolition of capital punishment (TIME, Feb. 27), Britain's Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, whose family has monopolized Britain's gallows trade for 85 years, quit his $42-a-job sideline. Although three murderers now await execution, Nooseman Pierrepoint...
Later, Carol made her bid, her green costume and rhinestone choker glittering through a light snowfall. She, too, repeated her Olympic performance. As she whirled and leaped to the beat of Adolphe Adam's If I Were King, her near-flawless execution brought the chilled crowd to its feet...