Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There were no defense lawyers present when 40 of the suspects were hauled before a secret "People's Court" three weeks ago. For Diallo, as well as the Moslem imam of Conakry's Coronthie district (who had called Touré's regime "irreligious") and 17 others, the sentence was death: the others, including three Frenchmen and a Swiss youth, drew long jail terms. Last week, the government disclosed that one of the Frenchmen had already died. "Heart attack," said the brief announcement...
...Caretakers. Much of the credit for the Post's present dominance goes to former Executive Editor Arthur Laro and former Managing Editor Jack Donahue. Laro took over the dull and stodgy Post-which then trailed Jesse Jones's Chronicle in circulation-in 1947, was given a relatively free hand by Mrs. Hobby. He livened the layout, raided the rival Houston Press for top talent, strengthened the Post's coverage of both state and national news. In 1958 he hired Donahue, whose aim was simple: "The Post already had the intellectuals; we wanted...
...Atlantic Coast Line announced plans to merge with the aggressive Seaboard Air Line Railroad, thus end a long rivalry. The new road would be called the Seaboard Coast Line, have assets of $900 million and rank tenth among the nation's railroads. Seaboard common stockholders would retain their present shares, which would be equal to one share in the new road. Coast Line common stockholders would receive 1.42 shares in the new company for each share now held. John W. Smith, Seaboard president, would become chairman of the new line and W. Thomas Rice, Coast Line president, president...
...impersonality of modern mass production at least contributes to the problem of mental health. Others, like Du Font's psychiatric chief, Dr. Gerald Gordon, feel that the job actually provides a needed center of reality. Says Dr. Gordon: "Industry is one of the few realistic situations in our present culture, because its success depends on the hard, cold profit-loss statistics. What is really good, sound business is also good mental health...
...good about it? Her husband is dead. Her only child is married to a poverty-bound painter in Paris. And the nagging pain in her stomach is no mystery to either the doctor or the reader. But though she dreads death, it is the contemplation of life present and past that makes Mrs. Van der Veen touching...