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...owner tried to buy it back, but Agriculture Ministry officials highhandedly refused to let it go at any price; they wanted to make an experimental farm out of it some day. Crichel Down has now become a national symbol of the arrogance of bureaucrats. Dugdale, resigning, gallantly took the rap for his subordinates. His successor: Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 54, who had been a success as Minister of State at the Board of Trade...
Sixteen months ago (TIME, April 27, 1953 et seq.), Grunewald pleaded guilty to a contempt of Congress charge (based on his earlier refusal to answer questions), paid a maximum fine of $1,000 but beat a 90-day jail rap. On the new indictment, the name-dropping, high-flying Dutchman, a frisky sexagenarian, faces possible prison time...
...began to look as if William Z. Foster, 73, ailing high commissar of the U.S. Communist Party, might beat a conspiracy rap and thus never join his eleven former aides-de-camp behind bars. In Manhattan, a court-appointed doctor examined Foster, who was indicted with the others in 1948, and reported that he is still too ill to stand trial...
...pick it until Burt Lancaster makes port. He blackmails the poor natives into picking coconuts, and even becomes their king. But greed and lust soon pull the kingdom down, and the stage is set for love to conquer all. To satisfy the censors, somebody has to take the rap for Burt's misdemeanors, but by this time the audience will probably be too heavily stunned with Technicolor and improbabilities to wonder why the villain should turn out to be German militarism...
...disappearance of Burgess and MacLean, followed last year by the similar disappearance of MacLean's wife and three children from their home in Geneva, still ranks high in the hearts of British mystery lovers as one of the top unsolved riddles of the age. Last week's rap on the door sent a new blizzard of speculation swirling through pubs and drawing rooms. But in point of fact, except for the lack of official documentation, the mystery surrounding Burgess and the MacLeans has grown fairly thin...