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...Skelton Show (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Red. as George Appleby, is hypnotized at an office party, runs afoul of Wife Clara, played by Marilyn Maxwell...
Apparently anxious not to run afoul of the SEC, Kirby denied that he was planning a proxy war, said that he would be content simply to fight the Murchisons' I.D.S. scheme in the courts. But many Wall Streeters believed it was only a matter of time till the bell rang for Round 2 of the great Alleghany fight...
...discovered Gerhart Eisler, longtime Red eminence in the U.S. who bail-jumped to East Germany in 1949, is a scarce commodity behind the Iron Curtain. After facetiously broadcasting a proposal to partition Washington and to garrison "East Washington" with German Democratic Republic troops, Chief Radio Propagandist Eisler found himself afoul of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht, who seemed to take the suggestion seriously. After explaining himself, Eisler took to a local newspaper next day to slap his own heavy hand, admitted that Ulbricht "told me I should have my head examined...
...Never Forget." It was hardly a surprise, then, that abrasive Charles Wyzanski should run afoul of Manny Celler and John McCormack, neither of whom is famed for a cool temper. The bad blood between Wyzanski and Celler goes back five years, to the time when Wyzanski was assigned to sentence Massachusetts' Dem ocratic Representative Thomas J. Lane, a member of Celler's Judiciary Committee who pleaded guilty to evading $38,542 in income taxes. Before Lane was sentenced to four months in prison (he was promptly re-elected to Congress on his release), Celler asked Wyzanski...
...suggest we look not only at the obvious areas of danger, where we may run afoul of the law, but also at those borderline areas of corporate action which might have unfortunate social consequences for our fellow man," said Ford. "Around the world, we are often described as a corporate society. If that is so, and if it is judged that the corporations are corrupt, then it will be assumed that the society itself is corrupt...