Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oscar Collazo, the sad-eyed little Puerto Rican nationalist, had virtually no defense to offer for his part in last November's wild-eyed plot to assassinate President Truman. He could only insist that he and his fellow conspirator, Griselio Torresola (who died during the furious gun battle on the Blair House sidewalk), had no intention of shooting the President; they were simply staging a demonstration in behalf of Puerto Rican independence. In Washington federal court last week, the jury took only one ballot to decide on its verdict: guilty of the premeditated murder of White House Guard Leslie...
...assassination in Brussels; he calmly issued a proclamation announcing that he would move to the ground floor of his headquarters, and listed the restaurants where he could be found after dark, to make the job for his assassin easier. The assassin never tried it. In 1944, after the plot on Hitler's life, the Gestapo arrested Falkenhausen; he has been in various jails ever since...
...Australia, a Communist-led dockers' union has just relaxed a costly, month-old slowdown strike over a variety of wage and overtime issues which the Government charged were pretexts to hide the real reason: the Communist plot to slow down the British Commonwealth rearmament. The Australian government has tried in vain to deport British-born James ("Big Jim") Healy, Communist boss of the dockers. Last week Australia's efforts to cope with Communism received a heavy blow when the High Court voided a 1950 law outlawing the Communist Party and giving the government power to "declare" union officials...
Last night's production of Lully's opera "Amadis de Gaule" proved that an opera which has not been performed for two hundred and fifty years can still be a first rate show. To he sure, the unwieldy plot had to be cut down into manageable length, by eliminating a few descents into the lower world, demons, and so on; but the spirit of stateliness, poise, and pageantry in the grandest manner of Louis XIV's court was admirably preserved. With very simple staging, a feeling of magnificant display was achieved by fanfares, processions, and some excellent choreography by Adele...
...mystery plot that was used to such advantage in "The Lady Vanishes" and "Sorry, Wrong Number" has reappeared with somewhat less success in "So Long at the Fair." The plot common to these films involves a heroine who suspects a crime that no one else will believe was committed. In "So Long at the Fair" a young English girl, in Paris for the 1889 exposition, checks into a hotel with her brother. She awakens the next day to find that not only her brother, but his room has disappeared, and that no one in the hotel has ever heard...