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...important. Julius and Ethel gave it to them in 1948," said Gessner. "Julius and Ethel?" asked Benson. Replied Gessner: "Julius and Ethel, yes, my predecessors." Federal Judge Arthur J. Stanley later ordered the references to the Rosenbergs, who were electrocuted in 1953 for giving nuclear secrets to the Russians, stricken from the record...
When a government patrol was attacked by spearmen at the village of Lubarika, the troops fled, leaving their commanding officer skewered in the dust. As the panic-stricken patrol sped north, government soldiers along the way were infected with their fear, and news of the "massacre" spread. By early last week, there were no Congolese soldiers left in the Kivu capital of Bukavu, and the rebels threatened to take the entire province, once the coffee-producing pride of Belgian white settlers...
Loss of Memory. When Ike was stricken by ileitis in June of 1956, he found himself too preoccupied to ponder the disability problem. Explained Ike simply: "It hurt." About a year later, Eisenhower suffered a minor stroke, which he described as "a spasm of the brain." Said he: "For 24 hours I had an absolute loss of memory for words. If I wanted to see anybody I couldn't possibly remember their names. This passed quickly...
...Scranton to the Congressmen: "Twentythree hundred years ago, Plato described poverty as the 'parent of meanness and viciousness,' and he urged that society declare war on it. 'It would be strange indeed,' he wrote, in a state even 'tolerably ordered,' if the poverty-stricken were to be 'utterly neglected' or allowed to fall into 'utter destitution.' Long centuries later, our great nation still has what this year it has become fashionable to call pockets of poverty. Our society is shamed and weakened by their existence, whether they be patches...
MOMENT OF FEAR (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Thirteen years after the fact, a conscience-stricken woman confesses the murder of her husband. Nina Foch, Dean Stockwell and Gary Merrill star in the first of selections from past series...