Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...word rolled out like a dirge in a Philadelphia court last week as lawyer after lawyer rose to voice the history-making plea for his clients. They were 19 major electrical manufacturers, including General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., charged by the Government with conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion in electrical equipment (TIME, Dec. 5). In the largest criminal case in the history of the antitrust laws, most of the companies were allowed to plead nolo contendere (no contest) in certain cases, provided they pleaded guilty in seven major cases...
Henri Takizala, President of the National Union of Students of the Congo, made a plea that the East and the West "temper their conflict and allow the Congolese themselves to come together and solve their problems." If this is not done, Takizala foresaw the possibility of the Congo's becoming "another Korea," a divided country with Western influence centered in Leopoldville and Soviet influence dominating stanleyville...
...society, however democratic, a "handful of men in secret" make the choices that "determine in the crudest sense whether we live or die." So argued English Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow last week as he delivered Harvard University's prestigious Godkin Lectures on public affairs.* Snow's plea was for more scientists in government, thus minimizing the role of hunch and political intuition...
...Burmese plea to strengthen the U.N. by admitting Red China and a Cuban defense of the Castro revolution highlighted Saturday night's 20th Century Week Session at Sanders Theatre. A Lebanese citizen and a Negro South African in exile also participated in the panel discussion of U.S. foreign policy...
...Averell Harriman and Sir Andrew Cohen concluded Twentieth Century Week yesterday with a plea that America improve its image in the eyes of developing African countries by recognizing that these countries need not take sides in the cold...