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Behind the assaults loomed the stocky, swarthy figure of Georgy Maximovich Pushkin, Soviet ambassador to the German Democratic Republic. Pushkin had successfully directed the Red rape of Hungary; in 3½ years as Russian ambassador in Budapest he had discreetly masterminded many a Communist coup, including the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk. Last December he took over his duties in Germany. Last week U.S. officials in Germany were wondering if Pushkin's pogrom might be prelude to a new Russian plan to seize all Berlin...
...Hasty Heart (Warner) is so far off Hollywood's beaten track that its ad writers are frantically trying to represent it as the same old stuff. Warner, which offered Johnny Belinda as a gamy rape story and Treasure of Sierra Madre as a film in which "women sold their souls," now hints pretty broadly of something sexy in The Hasty Heart. Adapted from John Patrick's 1945 Broadway hit, the film deals with nothing spicier than the last days of a proud, lonely Scottish soldier who is dying in a British army hospital in Burma. What makes...
...such men, no technological progress under collectivism can compensate for the rape of their property. I talked to a Cro atian peasant who thought he could not hold out much longer against the cooperative drive. His assets had melted. He com plained of having no sense of security, of being at the mercy of sudden and unjustifiable levies. "I am eating as well as before the war," he admitted, "but if I had ten sons I would send them all out of the country." He would, if he could. A Yugoslav who applies for a passport to leave the country...
...sharecropper's cabin near the town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) in central Mississippi. Three drunken bully boys-an ex-convict and moonshiner named Leon Turner and two brothers, Malcolm and Wendell Whitt-broke into the cabin of a Negro named Thomas Harris. They attempted to rape his wife, stole household effects and terrorized his family. A few days later, after the Negro's neighbors complained, the trio was arrested and held for trial...
Wealthy Francesco Cosentino, in his armchair in Crotone, agreed with his tenant. "We follow a system which amounts to rape of the land. We are no careful husbandmen-not husbands but rapists...