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Operation Stopped. Disturbed by Van Fleet's revelations last month, the Senate Armed Services Committee formed a special five-member subcommittee, headed by Maine's able Margaret Chase Smith, to spotlight "the officials and conditions responsible for the shortages." At the subcommittee's first hearing last week...
The comments on Gnosticism and ancient-world Catholicism by TIME and Dr. Voegelin are unnecessarily pedantic. Gnosticism and Catholicism were to ancient Christianity what Trotskyism and Stalinism are to today's Marxism. And just as orthodox Catholicism defeated Gnosticism in the ancient ideological battle, so did Stalinism defeat Trotskyism...
On the morning of execution, five armed warders and an African priest entered the death cell. The murderers chucked them out and, screaming like madmen, attacked the cell walls with bleeding hands and feet. After two hours' battering, the eight frightened convicted men burst out on to the fairway...
This week, as leftists began picketing the White House again for the first time since the inauguration, Manhattan's Judge Irving R. Kaufman solemnly set the date for the Rosenbergs' execution. They must die in the electric chair, he said, during the week of March 9.
In Manhattan, John David Provoo, 35, ex-U.S. Army sergeant and onetime devotee of Japanese Buddhism; was convicted of treason after a trial lasting 15 weeks (TIME, Nov. 24). Charges on which the jury found Provoo guilty: 1) offering his services to the Japanese army following his capture at...