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MURDER IN JACKSON HOLE, by Maude Parker (243 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), has the virtue of an unusual setting: a dude ranch in Wyoming. However, there is one trouble with leaving a really despicable intended victim too long on the scene: the reader rather hates to see a murder rap pinned on any of the nice folks who are left...
Khrushchev's blundering attempts to meet the agricultural crisis (for which Georgy Malenkov took the rap last February) have not helped significantly. In some areas of Siberia farmers are reported deserting the collectives to set up independent farms, or to join roving work gangs, where they probably eat better. To curb this kind of deviation, Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Kruglov last month took a swing through Kazakhstan, one of the principal collective farm areas, with a posse of MVD police...
Nuremberg trials, ends with Western Germany's trade revival under Allied occupation. Those who believe "it was right that the Nazis should have been punished for what they did to the Jews" but not right that they should have been punished for "aggressive war" get a sharp rap over the knuckles. Legalist West argues that precisely the reverse is true; no law ever existed under which the leaders of one nation could punish the leaders of another for having murdered their own nationals, whereas "aggressive war as a crime was inherent in the Kellogg-Briand Pact." The Nuremberg trials...
...members of a democratic cabinet politely begging to differ with each other, the fact was that in the final testing of strengths neither man cared basically about ideological matters. Proof of this lay in the resignation announcement. In losing the struggle for power, Malenkov even had to take the rap for errors in agriculture made by Khrushchev...
...escapade reminiscent of some his madcap father used to pull, was nabbed for reckless driving while whooping it up on his second wedding anniversary. He gave the cops some grandiloquent lip, was promptly tossed into jail, let out shortly on $300 bail, next day pleaded innocent to the rap...