Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...defendant's box. his wife, at the opposite end of the hall, buried her face in her hands. But Powers, despite his baggy, Russian-made double-breasted suit, looked fit and to all appearances unbrainwashed. When newsmen murmured about a bruise on his neck, Ida Powers set the record straight. "It's a birthmark," she said. "Yes, indeed, that's the first thing we saw about him when they brought him to the bed in Burdine. Kentucky, 31 years ago today...
Socialist Humanitarianism. The summing up was the predictable set propaganda piece-one that the London Times dismissed as "crude stuff" and a "charac teristic mistake by the Russians." To Prosecutor Rudenko, the trial "unmasked completely the criminal aggressive actions of the U.S. ruling quarters" and the "savage, man-hating ethics of Allen Dulles & Co., placing the dollar, this yellow devil, higher than human life." By way of defense, Powers' court-appointed attorney. Mikhail Grinev, who makes a good living losing cases he is expected to. tried to outdo the prosecution in attacking the U.S. Powers, he said, "should...
...Give Up." It was not safe to be a peaceable U.N. employee in the Congo last week. Two U.N. officers were set upon and robbed by Lumumba's own office guards when they arrived to deliver a note from U.N. Special Representative Ralph Bunche. Combing the town for "Belgians in disguise," Congolese police invaded Leopoldville's hotels in the early hours of the morning, turned out white occupants for inspection...
...Lindbergh kidnaping in the U.S. "This case." said the Sydney Daily Telegraph, "must never be closed until the killers are behind bars or the govern ment puts into action - on the gallows - the overwhelming inclinations of the people." New South Wales's Labor government is dead set against capital punishment, but at week's end Premier Heffron promised to consider "drastic increases" in the state's maximum kidnaping penalty of ten years. Public pressure was building up for Australia's national government to adopt something like the U.S. "Lindbergh Law." which makes transporting a kidnapee across...
...disappeared. Cyprus' independence party noticeably warmed. When 1,600 Greek and Turkish soldiers debarked from their homelands to stand guard duty over the infant republic alongside Cyprus' own future army, one Turkish centenarian fell on a startled Turkish infantryman's neck, blubbered that he had not set eyes on a Turkish uniform since the last Ottoman garrison sailed away in 1878. For Greek Cypriots, the day was made when a plane from Athens landed 21 EOKA terrorists-freedom fighters to the Cypriots-whom the British had exiled 17 months...