Bell Tolls

In two U.S. courtrooms, the bell of justice tolled for Communism:

P: In New York, Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan gave a five-year prison sentence to lanky William Perl (TIME, June 1), 34-year-old jet-propulsion expert and onetime classmate (Manhattan's City College) of Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. It was "abundantly established," said Judge Ryan, that Perl had deliberately lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not know Rosenberg or Sobell.

P: In Washington, Judge Holtzoff sentenced Kurt Ponger to five to 15 years in prison, and his brother-in-law Otto Verber to 3 1/3 to ten years, for spying for the Russians. The two Austrian-born ex-G.I.s, both U.S. citizens, were arrested in Vienna last January. Soon afterward they pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to collect and deliver U.S. defense secrets to the Russians.

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